If New York Is Nuked

I don't agree with deporting terrorists. If they have been found to have taken part in any terrorist activity against the US, they should just be shot.

I agree with you. They should be tortured, truth-serum'd, given a military trial and then shot. However, many terrorists are are only terrorists once in their life and often is the case where that single case of terrorism is a suicidal attack. You can't shoot a dead terrorist and you can't deter future terrorists with threats of death. The only thing to do is deport the groups they hide in. Visitors from dangerous countries have no right to be here, and anyway, the deportations, according to the plan I like, would have two important loopholes:

Terrorist Deportation Plan

The only thing we know about them -- other than that they live among us -- is that they are foreign-born and they are Muslims. The government has been remarkably tight-lipped about precisely how many Muslim visitors we are currently accommodating, but from unofficial estimates, there appear to be more than a million. Even if the attorney general instigated latter-day Palmer raids, it will take years and years to investigate and infiltrate every potential terrorist cell operating on our shores. The investigations should not be conducted while the enemy continues residing here, plotting the next attack. It's an extreme measure, but we face an extreme threat. It is suicidal naivete to think we can simply seal off every water supply, air vent, food supply and crop duster from now until the end of time. We cannot search every truck, every passenger, every shopper, every subway, every person entering every building -- every American every day. It is impossible to stop Islamic fundamentalists who believe that slaughtering thousands of innocent Americans will send them straight to Allah. All we can do is politely ask aliens from suspect nations to leave -- with the full expectation of readmittance -- while we sort the peace-loving immigrants from the murderous fanatics. More benefits of the plan next week, but the beauty part of the Terrorist Deportation Plan can't wait. There will be two fail-safes: (1) Muslim immigrants who agree to spy on the millions of Muslim citizens unaffected by the deportation order can stay; and (2) any Muslim immigrant who gets a U.S. senator to waive his deportation -- by name -- gets to stay.

In a rational world I would agree with you. However, the Monroe doctrine kept Europe out of South America unlike Africa and Asia or the Pacific. We did not have to fight a major war over South America. I agree that a lunatic could attempt what you indicate. However, whe would have a fair idea of who would kill millions of Americans with a loose nuke. To place these radical counties on notice forces them to deal with these radical groups. These countries harbor and support them. If a million Americans are killed by a radical group with a loose nuke than all of these countries should pay the price and we should take action to destabolize the countries to prevent further retribution from them. These countries are already the reason these hate groups spring up in their authoritarin idealogue societies with little freedom and raising hitler like nazi muslim trained haters. At some point if this does not change we will have to fight them or irradicate them unless you want to totally seal the U.S. border for good. So warn them of the consequences to their own land and people quitely to their government leaders outside of the press were statemetns can be denied but the meaning is crystal clear.

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