Posted on 11/14/2002 4:20:48 PM PST by Siobhan
More chest thumping. Period. Rich arabs and a few krauts and frogs thrown in for good measure maybe. But that's about it.
Another indication of chest thumping...why haven't they used their "hidden" nukes then? Even a West Point plebe knows you strike when you have the tactical advantage of surprise. September 11th was all they had. Besides, one nuke goes of in this country and you can bet we reserve the right to defend ourselves. I doubt they'll ever get a chance to use the other six he's dreaming about.
You may also be interested in my post #64.
How many of us would admit our hands are ready willing and able for that mission?
You think too small my friend. How about 5 or 10 Muslim countries - to hell with mere cities. How about if all your Islamic buddies worldwide are exterminated? A "small price" I guess.
The problem is that the economic despair will be so great that even if it saves [money] by not using weapons, American liquidity will be near zero, and the US will make more money selling a Nimitz-class aircraft carrier to Turkey or Italy for $5 billion, because they will urgently need to recapitalize.
What, he thinks he can start setting off nukes in the US & we'll still play nicey-nice? There's no need to buy & sell to raise needed capital & raw materials. A much easier way is to occupy all their sand-flea infested countries and milk them for everything we can get. Immediate control & ownership of most of the world's oil supplies by the U.S. will generate all the revenue we need. No need to sell anything. We'll need all of our military hardware to continue the worldwide extermination of Islamicists while we take over their rat-hole countries and get rich on the spoils of war.
But it will be too late. Moreover, what will remain of an American soldier's morale to fight knowing that his whole family died and his country ceased to exist? To fight for what?"
This is a really stupid comment. Easy answer - to fight for the extermination of all murderous Islamic pukes and their evil spawn worldwide. Both revenge and self-preservation are powerful motivators. Particularly when elimination of the source of the problem is easily achievable because you have the might & means to carry it out.
Talk. More talk. And still more talk. A "call for healing". A promise to "bring these monsters to justice." A bill to barcode every person in North America on the forehead. And, of course a strongly-worded note of protest to the UN.
This is not 1945 and President Bush isn't Harry S Truman. He's not going to incinerate eight hundred thouand Arab civilians to prove we mean business. There isn't a politician alive today with balls big enough to do the obvious thing in such a situation. It might interrupt te delicate Mideast peace process, and what of the reaction of the Arab Street? No, we'll send over some regular, non-nuke cruise missiles to "dominate the radarspace" or something, with lots of grainy infrared footage of outhouses and telephone exchanges going boom; meanwhile, in a speech carried live on CNNANCCBSNBCFOXMSNBCAlJazeera, a tearful president will join hands with leading Democrats for a prayer service with the survivors at Falllout Decontamination Camp #42. "This is not a time for anger. Rest assured that the people who blew up Dallas will be hunted down and brought to justice. But let us not forget that the 865,566 known victims of this tragic event are vctims not of the peaceful religion of Islam, but of a few madmen who have perverted the message of the prophet Mohammed (peace be upon him) for their own ends. No, for now, we must grieve for our loved ones, and begin the process of healing our nation. Also, please call your broker and buy some stock."
The ashes and rubble will be bulldozed over and a suitably somber Memorial Wall will be erected at the site of the CityPlace tower: "On this spot once stood the international headquarters of Seven-Eleven, plus the seventh largest city in America,." Crack squads of Grief Counselors will be airlifted to the nation's elementary, middle, and high schools. Ritalin will flow like water. Britney's fairy-tale reuinion with Justin will displace war news in the headlines. People will call the TV networks to complain about all that yucky bomb stuff on TV that keeps interrupting Will and Grace. Life will go on.
The world has changed after 9-11. It is almost inevitable that we (or one of our strong allies) will be visited by a WMD horror. I predict that with adults in charge (Bush is more like Harry Truman than you suspect, if understand what you meant by that comment), the response will be immediate and overwhelming. Disproportionate, in fact, as the Bush Doctrine essentially disavows measured, proportionate responses.
I think we will move away from the pretense of separating Islamic regimes from the "lunatic fringe" that would do us harm, and act much less discriminatingly. In essence, we will tell peace-loving Islamic people: kill or turn the terrorists over to us now, or face the consequences of being considered as harboring them (see Tora Bora for an illustration of those consequences).
You might have been right in 1997; I hope and pray you are wrong post 9-11.
If they had a nuke on 911 they would never have had a better time ... now we are warned, awake, alert and loaded for bear. If they had them then, they would have used them ... no doubt in my mind about that.
If I was smug, I would probably believe that there is no way they could ever have them or hurt us that way. I do not. I know that they are trying and will use them if they can get there hands on them and get them in place.
I pray they do not ... I also pray we are prepared if they do.
... by the way, you seemed awful smug about my perceived smugness ... LOL!
And to make the point even more realistic - did you notice that today the Bush administration is actually debating the issue of stopping food shipments to North Korea? Just imagine how devastating that could be.
I do not doubt your post, so the question is, is the article removed because its not true, ie, hoax, or that it is true.
But like I said, when I just clicked on the above provided link, the page appeared with the article, so who knows?
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