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To: Eastbound
Doesn't he think that extra-ordinary warfare must be fought using extra-ordinary methods...

He's suggested using the constitution's authorization of marque & reprisal. I don't know if that's adequate, but it is extra-ordinary.

75 posted on 10/16/2007 7:57:01 PM PDT by TexasKamaAina
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To: TexasKamaAina
Whatever works. But when a nation sponsors terrorism, how do you retaliate? Bounty hunters won't cut it. The risk here is that were talking about thousands of people getting killed all at once. (Nukes, etc.) I don't agree that we should take a first hit. Pre-empt and kill them where they sleep once we are certain of their plans. We already know they have the will and have no conscience. 9/11 was lesson enough.

Paul doesn't realize that as long as the world is in termoil worrying about the muzzy threat, we have to get busy and end the threat before we can afford to relax again and get back to pursuing happiness. We have to mobilize as a nation. And no doubt we will have to send our military might abroad.

I can't understand Paul's policy to stay home and un-involved at this time. Maybe in better days isolationism to some degree has a place. But we are at war and the whole world is the battlefield.

Through trial and error, we are succeeding. But I don't know of any other way to succeed against this muzzy kind of insanity except by trial and error.

That's just the way it is, imo. I'm absolutely certain that staying home and hiding in the closet will be fatal. It's time to get in the proper mind set for the task ahead.

76 posted on 10/16/2007 8:36:41 PM PDT by Eastbound
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