[wayoverontheright]

Top US military spokesman Mark Kimmitt said "we will respond. It is going to be deliberate and precise and it will be overwhelming.....

And our response will not be preemptive, but punitive and retaliatory, we therefore apologize in advance that the collateral death of innocents may ensue, in our effort to protect our innocents and your benefactors. If you know the guilty, we suggest you turn them in, at the very least you should distance yourself from them, physically.

[boxerblues]

Top US military spokesman Mark Kimmitt said "we will respond. It is going to be deliberate and precise and it will be overwhelming

I prefer this quote from Kimmitt

"It will be at the time and the place of our choosing. We will hunt down the criminals. We will kill them or we will capture them, and we will pacify Fallujah."

[Tom Bombadil]

punitive and retaliatory

While this may be emotionally satifying, it might be better if the response was geared towards exterminating the threat.

Threat extermination may look a little like punishment and retaliation, but the results are far more peaceful. Gather good intelligence, position your forces, and stomp hard precisely where it will do the most good.

Hamas pulled back from public encouragement of attacks on the United States precisely because they knew that they don't want to get into an unlimited war with the United States. These folks in Fallujah may be about to find out why.