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Who among us is willing to cross the ocean in bands of two and three, live and work in Lebanon for the next year or so, board an Arabian airliner with a few compatriots armed with boxcutters, use them to slit the throats of the crew, herd everyone else on board to the back, and crash the plane into Mecca? Our enemies are, and the people who helped them do it have already melted away into the neighborhoods of at least a dozen Arab, African, and other Muslim countries. What are the consequences of waging war on Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq (look how well our bombing's succeeded there), Iran, Sudan, Somalia, Yemen, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Libya, Indonesia, and part of the Phillipines?

The terrorists we've caught will be, on the tab of the U.S. taxpayer, fed, clothed, housed, treated with taxpayer-funded medical care if they get sick, provided with taxpayer-funded attorneys if they're too poor, and receive the full benefits of due process in a lengthy, taxpayer-funded trial. No one will be deported (much less assassinated), our borders will remain open, the taxpayer-funded U.N. will continue to enjoy the high life made possible by capitalism, and foreign aid will continue to flow.

The only response I can think of is to bomb whom we can find and implicate, evict the UN, deport ALL non-naturalized immigrants, close the borders, and bring the troops (and our tax dollars) home. Let them guard our borders, our shores, and our airways instead of everyone else's. It is the Department of Defense, isn't it? Oh, that's right. The hundreds of billions we've spent on the military, the CIA, NSA, FBI, and ATF were wasted because what we really needed all along was an "Office of Homeland Defense."

And another thing. What's this s*** about a War on Drugs=War on Terror? Does anyone seriously think that opium cultivated in Central Asia or cocaine in South America poses some sort of threat? How many drug users do you know? Whitney Houston? Robert Downey? The NBA? Terrorists make money in the stock market too. Time to declare a "War on Equities?"

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32 posted on 09/28/2001 12:24:02 PM PDT by SteamshipTime
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To: SteamshipTime
Time to declare a "War on Equities?"
Get with the program. Greenspan won that war last year.
79 posted on 09/28/2001 2:29:03 PM PDT by Don Joe
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