[Tail Gunner John]

I agree with you that if attacked with a WMD we will respond in a hellish and very deadly way. Why not openly advertise this in an effort to "deter" that WMD attack upon America in the first place?

[Prophet in the wilderness]

I still remember reading a story I read a few years ago, maybe 2 or 3 years ago ( I do remember reading it in the months before we went into IRAQ . I am not sure if it was in a magazine ( I think, it was NEWSWEEK ( Title, WHY IS THE REST OF THE WORLD AFRAID OF THE USA ) I am not sure of that though or maybe it was on the Internet. There was this person that was at this party and Colin Powell was at this party. Someone asked Colin Powell who has the greatest and strongest military in the world, and he said, " without a doubt, we do" .
( I am doing this by memory, so bear with me ). Then, this person asked Colin Powell " so ? if we have the greatest and strongest military in the world ? then ? in what place does the country that comes closest militarily wise to ours , rank in the world on a scale ? " and Colin Powell said " that the country that comes closest to our military would rank 7 th in the world " and he said " that we could turn the rest of the world into a ( ASH TRAY ) ( without using nuke weapons )" .
Has anyone else read this story ? or seen it on the Internet a few years ago ? or could do a research on it ?
Military ? there is no country that parallels to ours our can match our military, but, what concerns me is ? economically and geo politically concerns.