[SIDENET]

defying two major U.S.-led offensives aimed at routing foreign fighters

If they are reacting to our offensive, then it is having an effect on them. I hope we step up our efforts.

[goldstategop]

Once dead they stay dead. The only problem is it looks like there's an inexhaustible supply of would-be martyrs. Dealing with homocidal terrorists is like mowing back the grass.

(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)

[HarleyLady27]

Just a thought on this subject:

I had to take hubby into Sloan Kettering the other day, and we live in PA. While driving over the George Washington Bridge, I mentioned that all these bomber idiots in Iraq would have to do is drive a car loaded with stuff and sit it off in the middle of the bridge...hubby said that he was thinking the same thing.

When we got down to where we exit the Harlem River Drive to get to Sloan Kettering, he remarked to me, could you imagine what would happen to a city like this if they had to bombers killing themselves here?

I never thought about it before, never entered my mind until the other day and I couldn't wait to get out of New York and back home...its a very real, and a very scary thought.