[DoughtyOne]

Sadly he's right.

[Robert_Paulson2]

Such a shift in mindset is absolutely essential, Kay warned, for dealing with a threat he believes is eminent.

I wonder every time I see that word "eminent" do they mean "imminent" as in immediate, or as in the way the spelling implies "eminence" referring to dignified, royal or primary in nature.

Imminent means it could happen at any time. Eminent means highly prioritized, in this context, right?

English majors?

[davidosborne]

Just a reminder to my fellow FReepers....

Do not POST any MILITARY INRORMATION you might have.. pass it on...

Link to reminder thread...

David C. Osborne

[goldstategop]

Common sense. But the liberal do goobers will insist we understand the other side and attack the root causes of terrorism.

[backhoe]

-All Terror, All the Time-- FR's links to NBC Warfare, Terror, and More...--

Jihad! Across the World....

The Web of Terror

-IRAQ- some links to terror--

[blam]

"We have to go on the offensive," he said. "To be blunt, we have to kill the terrorists before they come here and kill us."

He's got my vote.

[guitfiddlist]

The Jihadists do not fear us enough. We will have to lose quite a few more innocent civilians before we get "unreasonable" enough to strike fear in the hearts of the societies that harbor and spawn terrorists.

Until then, we will be the perfect picture of ecumenical peace and non-generalizing, walking around with a big "Kick Me" sign on our backs.

We didn't exactly drop flowers on the Barbary coast, on Dresden, nor Hiroshima, and somehow all that murderous retaliation did the trick. But,..we're so much more civilized now. (/sarcasm)

[fastdraw]

Is PIPS affiliated with the infamous and loathsome IPS?

[angkor]

D: Addressing the root causes of terrorism. Swetnam believes the U.S. is losing the propaganda war

The primary "root cause" of Islamist terrorism is Islam.

The secondary cause of Islamist terrorism is that Islamists have not yet been killed in sufficient numbers, which leads them to believe they can be successful in destroying the West.

[dennisw]

Mecca-Medina-Qom.

[David Isaac]

Swetnam's report card really goes beyond merely disappointing. All of the other grades would be meaningless if we were getting an A in "intelligence", rather than an F.

After the fall of the Soviet Union, it was noted by many that our next worst enemy would be international terrorism. Apparently it was not noted by all of the right people. Inexcusable, is not too strong of a term.

[ghostrider]

"This war cannot be won on the defensive," Bremer said. "No matter how good we make our homeland security, there is virtually no way we can defend all of the targets that terrorists can come after."

He is correct. When you fight a defensive fight, you are always one "haymaker" from hitting the deck. When you throw the "haymaker," the other guy is always one "haymaker" from hitting the deck.

[Uncle Miltie]

"To be blunt, we have to kill the terrorists before they come here and kill us."

Bump for Truth.

[lodwick]

Pre-emptive bttt

[Republic of Texas]

I must be a terrorism expert, I've been saying this since 9/12/01. I thought I was just a Real Estate expert. Get my agent on the phone, call Hannity & Colmes!

[Cachelot]

Finally, someone gets it. No sense in collecting the bastards and keeping them fed and clothed at gitmo. Just find them and kill them.

[aculeus]

"I think 2002 ... was the tipping point when the metaphor for dealing with terrorism changed from 'terrorism is a crime' and the appropriate institutions for dealing with it are the police, law enforcement, and the judiciary," Kay said, "to 'terrorism is war,'...

It should have happend in 1993. The intent of the masterminds of the first attack on WTC: knock one tower into the other so that they both collapsed onto the street. If successful the death toll would have been tens of thousands.

The difference? The Clinton Administration was absolutely dominated by LAWYERS. Two in the White House, and many in the Cabinet.

Only a LAWYER could possibly confuse war with crime.

Keep LAWYERS out of the White House.

[Odile]

A shooting war is like unto major surgery on the body. It is to be used only as a last resort -- when all other attempts at "therapy" have failed.

Going over to the Middle East and killing Muslims will not help. We have MILLIONS of Muslims right HERE in the United States. They are ALL OVER Europe too.

Our FIRST priority SHOULD have been to outlaw the practice of Islam in the West. Close all the mosques. Deport all foreign born Islamics to the Middle East. Give the so-called American Muslims a clear choice: Either give up your American citizenship and go voluntarily to a Middle Eastern country of your choosing, OR be placed under surveillance and eventually be put into Internment Camps here in the US till this thing gets sorted out.

ISLAM is not RELIGION, it is a SUBVERSION.

John Adams was RIGHT when he pushed the Alienation and Seditions Act.

Abraham Lincoln was RIGHT when he suspended Habeas Corpus, thus defying a direct order from Chief Justice Roger Taney of the Supreme Court.

Woodrow Wilson was RIGHT when he banned the publication of views opposing his World War I policies.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt became a virtual dictator with a Rubber Stamp Congress to implement his every wish and wbim. He worked to blacken the reputation not only of those who sought to oppose him but of his highly virtuous PREDECESSOR, Herbert Hoover -- a good, decent, capable man -- who suffers still today from the Roosevelt Machine's incessant slander. YET, FDR is conidered to be one of our very greatest presidents. HE ordered the internment of the Nisei (Japanese Americans), and no one even IMAGINED that it was wrong.

Was HE right? Who knows?

The point is that "great" presidents in the past have acted outside the law and have evaded the principles of our Constitution any number of times. That is what great and courageous men with the courage of their convictions HAVE to do in times of extraordinary stress and imminjent danger.

[Mr_Magoo]

He forgot one grade.

F: Defending our borders.

[Publius6961]

Such a shift in mindset is absolutely essential, Kay warned, for dealing with a threat he believes is eminent.

Spelled correctly or not, what is this "imminent" BS?
What is CNSNEWS?
What was Sept 11, 2001? We are up to our eyeballs in war whether we were dragged kicking and screaming into it or not