Pentagon Fishes for Good Ideas to Thwart Terror

Reuters ^ | 10/25/01 | Jim Wolf

[demlosers]

They have good answers to thart Terror. They just need to implement the ideas and quit looking for the easy, wussie PC answers.

[syriacus]

I think we should spray the binLadenites with some sort of medicine that would slow them down. Then we perfom some sort of lobotomy (instead of killing) of the binLadenite soldiers. That should keep the innocent Taliban homefolk unharmed, but busy, ---caring for their war heroes.

[ChinaThreat]

How about $10,000 for every taliban head delivered to the pakistan border. Bigger prizes for bigger catches. Make a sport of it.

[MamaK]

I have a very good idea. Tell all of the Arab countrys to hand over Ben Laden or we will bomb Mecca and flaten it. I bet that would work.

[GraniteStateConservative]

Israel would be rubble, but that's just collateral damage, eh?

[Aggie Mama]

I.E., show Taliban dead next to dead pigs.

[OldFriend]

How is it in the 50s we were able to deport the entire top membership of the US Communist Party for advocating the violent overthrow the US Government. Now we have illegals threatening to blow up the entire country and we sit there and moan about how much we all love the muslims............

[syriacus]

Let's drop all our worrisome potentially-tainted mail on Baghdad!!!

Let Saddam sort it all out for US

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

I have a bunch of ideas. But they would be useless if made public. Freegards....

[VadeRetro]

I.E., show Taliban dead next to dead pigs.

I still like feeding them naked and alive to hungry pigs, maybe some of those European wild boars that have become such a nuisance in Germany lately. You'd have to get a big pack of the pigs and get them mean and hungry. You might have to slash the Taliban guys non-lethally to get the blood smell going.

You could make a stadium event out of it in true Taliban tradition.

[Zviadist]

The Pentagon (news - web sites) cast a wide net on Thursday for bright ideas on thwarting terrorism, seeking to pick the brains of just about everyone from tinkerers in their garages to big corporations worldwide.

Well, nice to see that they had this whole thing planned out. Sounds like the kind of hare-brained scheme we would find under Clinton.

[NeonKnight]

I am not sure why we have not set up in-country firebases. We have some very big guns that can spray some pretty serious ordinance. I am sure that 2-3 firebases, located near strategic airbases could cover most of the country and I would hope that a few M1's, Apaches, and SOF's could manage security.

[HENRYADAMS]

One more bit of evidence that the so called "leadership" is bankrupt. Can't you just see the headlines: 'plumber hoses Taliban. 'Shoe shine boy beats bedouins.' Oh G*D!

(Nothing wrong with plumbers or shoe shine boys per se. It is just they can't run a country. Yet as is becoming obvious=NEITHER CAN OUR POLITICIANS!)

[Tench_Coxe]

Here's a suggestion:

Increase surveillance on American citizens, require them to bear a tattoo on their forearm so we know the sheep from the wolves, and keep lax visa restrictions on people coming to the US from the Middle East.
Yep. That makes lots of sense to me.

[LurkingSince'98]

hey dem',

I din't see in request for proposals that they were looking for PC answers.

where did you read that?

I think most us common folks suggestions for the pentagon, would be VERY un-PC

so unless you know something we don't - try constructive criticism

Regards,

Lurking'

[VadeRetro]

I am sure that 2-3 firebases, located near strategic airbases could cover most of the country . . .

It's the size of Texas.

[NeonKnight]

The Pushten do not control an area the size of Texas. Besides, do you know the range of MLRV's?

[NeonKnight]

OK...5-6. Whatever it takes.

[PatrickHenry]

We could parachute in thousands of goats infected with AIDS.