[boris]

"I think that it would behoove us to simply decapitate and wait."

At last a statement I can agree with.

IMHO the correct course is:

-Rebuild our intelligence infrastructure;
-Work with Mossad to seek out and terminate the leadership of these organizations;
-Locate training facilities, germ and chem war plants--and destroy them utterly. Whatever it takes. Sometimes it will take a lot--see Libya's hardened and subterranean poison-gas plant.

We also need to take immediate and agressive action to purge our country of enemy aliens.

--Boris

[annalex]

Your plan is fine. The controversial part is, what to do after the "decapitation" has occurred. My thesis is, these guys don't really have a "head", in the sense that they can quickly grow a new one, like whatever that mythological animal is (Medusa? mushroom? zits? my Greek is not what is used to be).

Incidentally, the decapitation strategy doesn't seem to work for Israel, and for the same reasons: when you have a hostile culture, there is no substitute for control of territory.

[Carry_Okie]

-Rebuild our intelligence infrastructure;

Agreed.

-Work with Mossad to seek out and terminate the leadership of these organizations;

No way. The first one is sufficient. This was an attack on America, not Israel.

-Locate training facilities, germ and chem war plants--and destroy them utterly. Whatever it takes. Sometimes it will take a lot--see Libya's hardened and subterranean poison-gas plant.

Right ON!!!

We also need to take immediate and agressive action to purge our country of enemy aliens.

This is more delicate. I propose developing means within the community of naturalized Arab ex-patriots to turn in their criminal brethren. I do not see alienating them as a positive development. Patriotism and integrity should be rewarded in this country. We might just get more of it.

FReegards, C_O