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I think I agree. We should put the SDI money into locating and snuffing out every terrorist camp in the world.
Course, maybe we could do that with Star Wars tech, too.
Command Center:
"Sattelite's picked up a People's Front of Judea camp outside of Zoopoopie in Dorkinistan." "Push the button."
Tiny motors spring to life, propelling a laser-guided, Winnebago-sized chunk of captured asteroidial rock (or launched stony-metal payload) through the atmosphere. It impacts within 1 meter of the target area. Everything within a quarter-mile is obliterated.
"Yup, it's gone now." "The premier of Dorkinistan just called, he's protesting our action." "Push the button."
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I think we need to be very careful to ensure that any retaliation we employ is measured and directed entirely at those responsible. This was a carefully planned and expertly executed operation. That gives me hope that we can discover evidence that could lead to the perpetrators. Though we certainly want swift and brutal justice, we can't let that become blind vengeance. That would only validate the horrible events that have occured today. Let's not lose our heads. Otherwise, they've allready won.
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quote:Bet you're glad that wedding was last week -- flying from D.C. to L.A. would put you in the likelyhood of being on a to-be-hijacked plane.
Jeff, you have no idea how much that thought has brought this tragedy into even starker focus for me.
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What puzzles me is why the terrorists didn't have the patience to go for the plum target: a joint session of Congress. Anyone who's read Tom Clancy's Debt of Honor will know why I mention this. You'd get most of the Executive, the Legislature, the Judiciary and senior military, all in one go.
(Sorry if this offends anyone - just thinking like a terrorist for no apparent reason.)
Why not the Statue of Liberty? Harder to hit for one thing. Similarly the Empire State - too obscured by the other high buildings around it.
The Pentagon hit strikes me as being slightly off-target. Should have been able to get the whole thing, not just one wing.
I hope Bush keeps cool and doesn't go for a knee-jerk reaction. Don't get mad, get even. And beware the fury of a patient man...
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Actually, this is a good opportunity to eliminate every terrorist group. WHY should we stop with just those responsible for THIS act?
ALL Husnock, everywhere.
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Apparently the plane that crashed in PA was en route to the greater DC area. So while Camp David was speculated as a target, so could the Capitol or the White House, two very appealing targets.
And I thought I heard CNN say that Iraq was the only country that had actively congratulated the bombers rather than condemned it.
Libya's condemnation doesn't actually strike me as all that out of place, though. Gaddafi's been trying for a while to be seen as more of a nice guy, though history says otherwise.
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I'm saying that ... THEY, whoever 'THEY' may be, attacked a civilian target ... I think they should get a taste of that too !
THEY attacked non-military targets, USING non-military airplanes and vehicles!!!!!! CIVILIANS were killed... NON-military buildings were destroyed in the attack...
Fight fire with fire. Attacking a military installation is the BONAFIDE US retaliatory strike.
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I've decided NOT to calm down. Calm breeds complacency. I'm going to stay enraged until this is seen through.
My uncle was in the Army's Antiterrorism branch just a little before the time of the bombing of the Marine Barracks in Lebanon.
The only way to stop terrorism is to hit them back, ten times as hard as they hit you, with as much disregard to their lives as they've shown yours, so that the next batch knows not to make the effort.
This is why hijackings were so rare in the old USSR... because the USSR would send in Spetznaz (their elite special forces) at the very LEAST, and everybody connected with the operation would die.
Once the connection to a group or individual is established, an ultimatum should be delivered to the nation harboring them: You have 24 hours to deliver them up to us, or we vaporize one of your cities every hour after that until you do.
Once the individual/group in question is in custody... strip him/them naked and drop him/them off in lower Manhattan. The residents should be able to take it from there.
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Does the UN have a branch called "United Nations Anti-Terrorist Coalition" (UNATCO)? You know, like in Deus Ex. If not - why not? and if so, why they hell do they deal with the terrorists once and for all!?
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"I'm saying that ... THEY, whoever 'THEY' may be, attacked a civilian target ... I think they should get a taste of that too !" "Once the connection to a group or individual is established, an ultimatum should be delivered to the nation harboring them: You have 24 hours to deliver them up to us, or we vaporize one of your cities every hour after that until you do."
I don't know how you people can look at yourselves in the mirror. You're exactly the same as the people you claim are so horrible. How can you condemn their killing of civilians, while praising the same actions if they were taken by us? You're disgusting.
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