There are 1.5 billion Islams in the world. At least 10 to 15 percent of them would obey their leaders and join a jihad agst the USA.
When we strike Osama, no matter how much evidence we have on Osama, and no matter whether there are collateral casualties, it will just incite all the other Islamics or whatever they're called. The nations like Afghanistan will attempt to exact more terror.
And within our country, it is downright frightening to think of how many "sleepers" they have here. They have been planting them here for a number of years. This, according to mideast experts.
When it comes to states who support or harbor terrorists, the ONLY way we are going to stop them is to reign so much destruction on them that they have to stop---because they either choose to live or because they are dead. If we do this, other nations will condemn us and have a hissy, and here in the USA on campuses and in Hollywood we'll face opposition that will fill the cable channels every bit as much as the attack has since Sept 11.
As for terrorists among us, political correctness will allow them to destroy us. We are going to have to look at immigrants here, and look hard. Unfair? Yes. But the choice is this or death and the end of our nation. This will not be acceptable to the "we are the world" crowd, who are more concerned that someone will have their feelings hurt than that terrorists have the opportunity to kill more people.
I am afraid it's more serious than we think---NOT because we CAN'T overcome it, but because we do not have the WILL to overcome it because it would require us to do grossly politically incorrect things. That program last night profoundly gives insight into the state of mind of the latte states and the Gore voters.
But no - that is not a big enough enemy for you. You need a enemy of a size that comports with the demons in your own heart. It is not even enough to take on radical Islam. You have to take on Islam itself around the world - oh, with a gratuitous addition of political correctness. Together that must number about 1.5 Billion. Oh and you might as well lump in the folks in our military, the Republican Party and the administration who think that our strategy should be focused on bin Laden.
I am sort of curious to hear how you and your friends on this thread envision the conduct of your campaign. Are we to have forced conversions to Christianity - you know drop leaflets around the Middle East directing everyone to Million Man Baptism ceremonies - at threat of being nuked.
And what is your strategy for conversion of the folks in the more remote desert and mountain regions of the Middle East, Central and Southern and East Asia and Africa north of the Sahel.
And what about political correctness in the West - round liberal college professors up and gunpoint and have mass Constitution readings with breaks for scripture from the founding fathers.
I mean seriously - what are you and your friends thinking, because frankly as someone with a lot of military planning experience I haven't a goddamned clue. Not one.