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September 14, 2001 The time has come for the United States to make good on its past http://members2.boardhost.com/benton_harbor/ Jeffrey Alan Messer has set us up a "replacement"
Jeffrey has set us up to "carry on" like we all used to...
I bet Pat Moody would even look in and comment(esp if we keep it "interesting") on air now and then.
WSJM now has a "healing hearts" board up and here is what I posted :
Now HERE is an interesting perspective:
(from the "Washington Times")
http://www.washtimes.com/op-ed/20010914-87723680.htm
Time to use the nuclear option
Thomas Woodrow
pledges that it will use all military capabilities at its disposal to defend
U.S. soil by delivering nuclear strikes against the instigators and
perpetrators of the attacks against the nation's political capital and the
nation's financial capital.
At a bare minimum, tactical nuclear capabilites should be used against
the bin Laden camps in the desert of Afghanistan. To do less would be
rightly seen by the poisoned minds that orchestrated these attacks as
cowardice on the part of the United States and the current administration.
To consider use of the nation's nuclear forces, in the present
circumstances, cannot be brushed aside as an overly emotional response to
the unknown face of terrorism. To begin with, we know who that face belongs
to, and we know where a goodly portion of his logistical and training
capabilities are located. A series of low-level, tactical nuclear strikes in
the Afghanistan desert would pose no risk to large population centers and
would carry little risk of fallout spreading to populated areas.
Also, our nuclear capabilities were designed to include just such a
mission, and they are capable of fulfilling such a mission.
Lastly, the use of nuclear weapons against the bin Laden groups and
his supporters will rightly shock the world, but it will also shock those
nations that have been disposed for a variety of reasons to back the
terrorist groups with economic and political support. The United States
will, in effect, have raised the bar against future such acts from
occurring. If we, as a nation, show the willingness to use the ultimate
weapon in the current situation, there can be no doubt anywhere in the globe
that the United States will make good on its past pledges to defend its
sovereign territory with such weapons.
The attacks that occurred this week have been classified both as acts
of war and as a second Pearl Harbor, but these designations ennoble the acts
in Washington and New York. An act of war is constituted when one
nation-state uses military force against another. Pearl Harbor was used by
Japan to attack U.S. military targets to begin such an act of war. The bin
Laden groups are not nations or states, and they have primarily targeted
civilian populations. In fact, the use of so-called Islamic fundamentalist
terrorism on a global scale is a new phenomena, a product of the modern age.
In centuries past, civilized nations would conduct "punitive" expeditions
against pirate regimes, but those actions were strictly local in scope and
the protagonists could not approach the sophistication shown by the bin
Laden groups. As we have seen from such "punitive" actions by the previous
administration, those actions achieved next to nothing.
The fight against the bin Laden groups will be a fight to the death,
and this is another valid reason to make use of our nation's nuclear forces.
Unlike the more limited goals of wars between nations -- territory, formal
surrender, etc. -- bin Laden's goals are the elimination of the United
States as the global leader for progressive political, economic and cultural
change. Should, God forbid, the United States withdraw from the Middle East
and Persian Gulf, the terrorists will raise their sights to eliminate our
influence elswhere in the world. For a vision of what these groups see as
their ultimate objective, we need look no further than the Taliban regime in
Afghanistan, where women are beaten in the street for walking in public,
owners of television sets are sent to prison or shot and ancient Buddhist
monuments to universal peace and understanding are reduced to rubble.
No, the bin Laden groups must be exterminated completely before they
become more powerful in their efforts to exterminate us. We should use our
nuclear capabilities to help achieve this. We must, as a nation, take the
firmest action possible against this growing evil in the world, before its
poison spreads even further. If not the United States, who? If not now,
under these circumstances, when?
Thomas Woodrow, a 22-year veteran intelligence officer, resigned from the
Defense Intelligence Agency in May.
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While the above artice looks, sounds and IS harsh...
My ONLY concern in the upcoming war is for AMERICAN lives...
I have young kids- I DON'T want them dealing with this all their lives-
I don't want them to have to be drafted.
I don't want our best and brightest young people killed on foreign soil in a protracted, nasty, ground war.
Also, THIS attack was worse than Pearl Harbor...
look back at how America had to end that threat.
Cow
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