I don't recall being asked before I was graced with being born here. I don't think anyone gets to choose place of birth. You may keep your cavalier attitude towards killing innocent people. I still consider it to be barbaric.
"Its not about revenge. It is about survival. I think it is immoral to allow an enemy that has proven willing and capable of using biologial weapons to continue to do so."
Our root disagreement appears to be here. A couple of points are:
1) To the best of my knowledge, no one has claimed responsibility for nor has any evidence been produced proving WHO conducted these bio attacks. It COULD be a disgruntled American. After Tim McVeigh, that has to be a consideration.
2) It is immoral to wage war against a people who have not been proven to be an enemy. While there are probably terrorists in Afghanistan, there are probably 10s if not 100s of thousands of innocents for each terrorist.
3) Do we apply the same defenses against home grown terrorism?(i.e., If we find domestic terrorists preparing to use anthrax or other bio weapons in an American city, say Waco, Texas for example, do we nuke the region?)
I think if you really think this through, you'll come up with solutions far short of nukes that will be effective in the short term and the long term. I would focus on defense from bio attack and investigating the source of the attacks in the short term, which is, I believe, the course our leaders have chosen.When we discover,for certain, who conducted these attacks, we go after them with a vengence using the apprpriate force to finish them off permanently. Long term, I would attempt to maintain a lid on bio weapon development.
IMHO, the use of nukes against ANYONE at this stage would be as immoral, if not more so, than the attacks on the WTC.
As for that article in the Post, it has been well dissected here on FR. I don't doubt that the people who are sending anthrax out are HERE - but I also don't doubt it will be linked back to al Quaeda.
The people of Afghanistan have some amount of self-determination. The Taliban didn't spring up out of thin air. You may think it cavalier to bomb the people of a nation with which we are at war, but it is an unfortunate necessity sometimes.
Let me leave you with a quote from General William T Sherman:
You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will. War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it; and those who brought war into our country deserve all the curses and maledictions a people can pour out. I know I had no hand in making this war, and I know I will make more sacrifices to-day than any of you to secure peace.