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The first wave of bombings have been completed, reports the Pentagon. Looks like the war's started. Looks a lot like the Gulf War on TV...night vision, reporters by explosions, etc.
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As I understand it, the primary goal of these bombings is to ascertain how the Taliban and various terrorist cells across the world (and in the U.S.) react.
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And we move on to wave two . The Goal here I think is to throw a cruise missle size wrench in the Taliban command structure , ruin their communication , and inspire defections and desertion in their army , not to mention force the Taliban to shift their armies around so that the Northern Alliance can continue their advances.
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Bin Laden just made a speech...not live, of course, taped...but he said all Arabs must rally, the United States is the enemy. He siad God will take care of us, and no citizen of America will feel safe.
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Rumsefeld just said we are dropping food and supplies to the Afghan people. Obviously, air defenses must have been softened up extremely quickly for this to click in so soon after a military operation.
Apparently bin Laden's speech has incited some protesting in Quetta, a west Pakistan city near the Afghanistan border.
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BinLaden's 'speech' was a prerecorded tape, made quite some time before the attacks, probably Friday. It was the same self-serving crap rhetoric he's always used, meant to inspire the fanatics. Not one original word or non-hyperbole.
They had the choice between the paths of Peace and Terror. They chose Terror. Now, the path doubles back upon itself.
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No...you're not.
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I am kind of ambivalent towards this.
I know some form of reaction is justified.
But I fear that this may bloom to a new world war.
This is not the World that I or my future descendants want to live in.
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In these postmodern times sarcasm creeps in underneath every door, but as non-sarcasticly as I can, I'd ask: What else would you suggest?
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"He pulls a knife, you pull a gun. He sends one of yours to the hospital, you send one of his to the morgue." -- The Untouchables
We'd all like it if we could all just play nice, and everybody would just get along.
But it won't happen. Not so long as people like BinLaden and his followers are permitted to run free, to reign over entire countries, and to blow up the children of the people who they disagree with.
They do not stop to negotiate. They do not pause to reconsider. They will fight, and murder, and recruit others, until they die. Your choice is whether they die in the mountains of the Kush with a bullet in their chest, or in a school bus in Tel Aviv or Paris or New York with a bomb strapped to their chest.
Do not delude yourself into believing that it can be otherwise.
"Some form of reaction" is not justified.
TOTAL ANNIHILATION of those responsible, and those who now aid them, is what IS justified.
Anything LESS is MERCY.
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Mercy is not a universal virtue. Only when tempered by discretion.
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I agree with 1st of 2 here. All I can say is that we better not pull out before completing our task like we did in the Gulf War. Iraq is still a pain in our ass because of the fact that we did.
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