No, we don't. Not yet.
Unfortunately, it will take an attack upon the U.S. of massive proportions before that "courage" is mustered. Probably a nuclear weapon detonation.
I believe there is a high probability of this happening one day. It could be in a short time, but the _longer_ the struggle with Islam lasts, the _closer_ they will be towards achieving this "goal".
Terrorism is a game of "one-upsmanship". Do something big, and, next time, you've got to upstage it.
Do something as spectacular as the World Trade Center attack, and how does one upstage _that_? What can they do for an encore?
So you want "every Arab non-US citizen" expelled. Are you prepared to embrace the concept of "ethnic cleansing"? After all, if expelling Islamics is _not_ "cleansing", then what IS it?
99% of the posters in this forum -- for all their bravado against "Islam" - are NOT prepared for such actions.
For the record, I _am_ fully prepared to do this if need be. I understood Serbian ethnic cleansing of Muslims in Bosnia -- for the [Christian] Serbs knew that _they_, too, were engaged in a struggle with Islam. They knew that what they had to do to win wasn't pretty. But they did it anyway, because, again, they were involved in a battle with _Islam_. (As are the Russians in Chechnia [sp?])
So what do you think of the Serbs? Would you be willing that Islamics here be cleansed and expelled in the same manner?
Cheers!
- John
FTR (for the record) I was totally aginst the Clinton-Clark-NATO actions in Kosovo and Bosnia, and obviously against the bombing of innocent civilians in Belgrade Yugoslavia.
I do agree that we do not yet have the stomach as a nation to either take these measures legally, or take matters into our own hands as civilians.
Maybe someday, but not today.