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We shall be reduced to a second rate Europe in a few years. No longer the land of opportunity. Just another powerless member of the ineffectual West. Drowned in its own political correctness. Reduced to a shadow of it's former self.

Please, get a grip on the hyperbole. This article is just more Arab blustering, something they do quite readily and with great emotion. So what? I recall the Taliban leaders on Arab TV claiming that Afghanistan would be 'America's graveyard'. Five weeks later, the Taliban were hiding in caves and running for the border. Talk is easy but military might is deadly and we have the military might to destroy all of the tin-pot mid-east dictatorships, should we need to. We won't. A few selected countries will do the job as even Muslim fanatics recognize that all the bluster is meaningless whn the bombs are falling on your house.

America is the richest, freest and most militarily powerful nation on the face of the earth. Some Muslim fanatics with powerful weapons and a death wish are not going to defeat us, although they certainly can harm us.
We cannot deport every Arab or make every single structure bomb-proof and our very freedom gives the terrorists some advantage in their attack plans. That's understood and won't change.

Bush is not Clinton, try as some do to portray him that way when he doesn't start threatening to nuke anyone who threatens us. The president and the administration are very well aware of the threat to our nation, they are acting on those threats and Bush has warned (in his recent West Point speech) of U.S. premptive strikes against our enemies, and we know who they are.

Talk of the Muslims turning America into a third-world country is rubbish and just overheated anti-Bush hyperbole, as empty (and useless) as some of the terrorist threats. Criticism of the president is valid, 'giving up' on him is certainly your perogative and if you wish to play Chicken Little, be our guest, but don't expect serious attention when you make hysterical claims and accusations against the president and attempt to make the Muslim terrorists 10 feet tall. They are not, but America is and an American citizenry that is roused and angry - which another attack guarantees - will not be cowed, threatened or intimidated, much less defeated. Count on it.

That was a very nice summary of my opinions on this matter as well. It's certainly not a good idea to underestimate your enemy, but it's equally (if not more) damaging to make them into supermen. I personally believe that our President knows this and is handling it in the best way possible considering the situation. We *don't* want to cower in holes and develop nervous tics just because some islamist freak threatens us with something every few days/weeks. We need to keep a level head to deal with this effectively.

You are so level headed and reasonable. But it's all useless if you aren't looking at the actual situation. PC has already halved the soul of this nation. We are well on our way to European ineffectual double mindedness.

If terrorists can render Manhatan and DC even temporarilly uninhabitable with radiological weapons while killing twenty or thirty thousand people and sickening a couple hundred thousand .... this nation is going into a tailspin it could take decades to come out of given our complete lack of political leadership ( a lack of leadership we richly deserve I wish to emphasize).

This is not "the sky is falling." This is a real probability if not near certitude ... GIVEN THE PANY WAIST BEHAVIOUR presently in control of our halls of power.

I don't see GWB doing much to change this situation. In fact I see him as a major contributor to the malaise.

Arab terrorist fear American bench strength. The fear is justified. You "get" it.

Please, get a grip on the hyperbole. This article is just more Arab blustering, something they do quite readily and with great emotion. So what? I recall the Taliban leaders on Arab TV claiming that Afghanistan would be 'America's graveyard'. Five weeks later, the Taliban were hiding in caves and running for the border. Talk is easy but military might is deadly and we have the military might to destroy all of the tin-pot mid-east dictatorships, should we need to. We won't. A few selected countries will do the job as even Muslim fanatics recognize that all the bluster is meaningless when the bombs are falling on your house.