I'm glad you're glad.
"I am all for using our military might against those responsble for the terrorist acts, indeed, the act of war."
The war between Western Civilization and barbarism has been going on for centuries. Let us end it.
"I am against going on a homicidal, genocidal rampage against 1 billion people around the world, many of which live here in the states."
"A homicidal, genocidal rampage" is a pretty good descriptor of WAR. As for those Muslims living here, there are two types: (a) those on visas [invitations to visit], which should have been immediately revoked and their holders deported; and (b) "naturalized citizens" harboring an unknown number of sleepers and moles. Detailed and exhaustive background checks on all of them need to be conducted soonest.
"The terrorist attacks on 9-11 is not justification for a war against a religion, sorry. If the battle lines ultimately are drawn that way, fine, but as of 9-12-01, up till today, there is nothing to warrant such a rash action as 'you could still see the glowing patches that once were capital cities of terror supporting states, and Mecca and Medina would have been reduced to their component atoms.'
As I said, it was an act of war, the latest strike in a centuries-long conflict. Time to END it...now. Rash? Maybe you'd think differently if one of your loved ones was in the WTC...
"Grow up - denial isn't a river in egypt, nor am I in denial. What you describe would be a terrible course of action that most folks would not justify. Even after thousands of our own innocents are murdered, that is not an unlimited license for us to do what you prescribe."
The Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor--and we nuked Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The Islamists represent a more dire "clear and present danger" to us and our children--not to mention our civilization...and deserve the worst we can throw at them. Anyone thinking differently is--in essence--on the side of the enemy.
"I do not advocate weakness - I advocate a measured response against those responsible, both as a punitive measure and as a deterrent. Nuking holy cities and killion millions of innocents is not a rationally measured response."
Weakness is precisely what you advocate, and "rationally measured" responses are interpreted--as I said before--as weakness. Will it take a nuke in Chicago to convince you? Smallpox in L.A.?...
--Boris