3. At a minimum I'd think you'd need: (a) an implementation strategy and (b) an exit strategy. Your naivete is astounding! There is no exit strategy ... we destroy all living terrorists who would assault this nation and continue to do so for your lifetime. Got it?

I haven't a clue. Thankfully, I have complete faith in our President and those around him, and most importantly, in prayer.

"Unless God protects the Nation, the night watchman watches in vain." OT

1. Take over the airspace.
2. Destroy communications.
3. Deploy Stealth fighters to DESTROY anything with a heat signature greater than 80 degrees.
4. Flood their economy with conterfiet currency.
5. Constuct the worlds largest permanant AMERICAN military base there.

naivete? There's ALWAYS an exit strategy. You haven't done this very much in your life, have you?

air superiority.... Massive, over-whelming force is the Powell Doctrine.

Two options:

1. For visibility, carpet-bomb all known terrorism training camps, headquarters, and supportive governments.

2. NOT visible, eliminate by assassination everyone connected with suicide attacks. When the supply of recruits dries up so will this kind of attack, they want to commit suicide not get killed.

Constuct the worlds largest permanant AMERICAN military base there. History seems to indicate that in at least the Afghani region, larger forces have been problematic concerning manuever, logistical, etc. Would not smaller elements address those issues? We must learn, no, we must exploit the lessons of the past. Use good commo and weapon technologies and good training in small unit tactics.

Sorry, but the only "exit strategy" is when every last terrorist organization with evil designs on the USA is worm food, THAT'S our only exit strategy.

Until then, we're in it for the duration.

What they fear is our decadent culture. We should clone Barbra Streisand, Ellen DeGeneris and Geraldo Rivera and send them over in legions. A legion of Jerry Springers would follow in the second wave. They would conduct non-stop television shows and concerts. This would bring our enemy to their knees (and not in prayer).

Make it clear to the world that if a nuclear bomb blows up on U.S. property, then both Mecca and Baghdad will be leveled after a 7 day notice to vacate.

Until then, we're in it for the duration

So, then, you're talking about permanent occupation?

I'm more in favor of freeing up American troops once it's over and having some surrogate take over. Reinstituting the Ottoman Empire with Turks in Charge of the Area would be a good idea, given that Turkey is a NATO member.

You should keep such elaborate plans to yourself. Seriously, I wonder how smart it is to be discussing war options on a public forum.

such elaborate plans to yourself

Dropping Ellen DeGeneris on Afghanistan is a scarey proposal....probably against the Geneva Accords.

A discussion like this, SINCE none of us know anything, is a BRAIN-STORMING session. Who knows, it could cause some insightful reflection.

1.)Find them.

2.)Kill them all, let Allah sort them out.

3.) Re-target enough nuclear missiles on all Arab-Islamic countries.

4.)Inform the Arab world that any incident of terrorism against any American anywhere in the world will result in the complete destruction of the entire middle East and any Muslim supporting countries or groups.

5.)Find that fat ugly, smirking Palestinian woman with the big glasses celebrating and dancing around and vocalizing that weird Arabic sound their women make, shoot her in the head with a .22, slit her throat, hang her in public with a pigs head stuffed in her mouth and send a video of it to all the TV stations in the world.

I'm no military expert, but I will suggest anyway:

1. Establish air superiority over the region.
2. Establish an inland base, including provision for air transport, helicopter and fighter ops, at some central location. Northern Pakistan is lovely this time of year.
3. Base company strength US Marine units at this base supported by helicopter and massive ground attack capabilities.
4. As soon as a suspected terrorist camp is identified anywhere in the region, bomb from the air and then send in the Marines to bayonette the survivors.
5. Lather, Rinse, Repeat.
6. When the last terrorist is dead, load onto transports, set charges to dynamite the airstrips, and leave.

The first thing is, declare war. Otherwise whatever we do becomes 'policy', intrinsically no more important than any other policy and subject to endless debate and 'clarification' of priorities.

Without a declaration of war we will have a few weeks of bombing (and bombast!) followed by Congress wandering off after whatever brightly colored object flits across its collective vision, wondering aloud whether a negotiated settlement might not be better after all and whether the money being 'wasted' on retribution might not be better spent on domestic programs....

Pay Russia, with the currency of Serbia, to have at it.

Pull our troops out of NATO; redeploy to Mexico.

Mexico should be willing to give up its sovereignty,
because we are at war, after all.

Mexican conscripts would make good border guards.

I absolutely agree on the declaration of war point. For one, it is Constitutional.

I believe it's in the Constitution because a declaration of War provides CLARITY and OBJECTIVE.