Posted on 08/05/2002 4:26:56 AM PDT by Gemflint
Deodorant agents would be far more useful.:~)
I don't think Saddam either likes or dislikes anybody. His only concern is staying in power, and increasing it if he can. If somehow helping he Israelis served this end (although I can't see how that would ever be the case), he would do so without hesititation. He's actually very Clintonesque.
Is it just the tequila this morning, or are all of the cheezy 60's James Bond and Batman villains and their diabolical plans coming to life???
LOL...well said.
The Brits just screwed their own al Qaeda-connection argument with this article : bioweapons are best not used in the terrorists' own back yards. A more distant target like the US makes more sense. Terrorists affiliated with ao Qaeda or whatever they choose to call themselves by this time are more internationally mobile.
The terrorists that haven't blown themselves up have shown they aren't exactly swimming at the top of the gene pool, but they can't be so stupid as to drop a biohazard next to their own neighborhood to get at a few Israeli settlers when homocide bombs already do so nicely.
1. Never underestimate the capacity for human stupidity.
2. Did anyone ever think that the people spreading this stuff around could be lied to? After all, the really vicious people are at the top of the Pallie terror groups, and no one know what they are capable of doing.
Furthermore, if terrorism is so effective, why aren't the Israeli's leaving bags of explosives/nails with remote det devices lying around the West Bank and Gaza. I would have terror bombs going off on the hour every hour in their backyards until they backed off. Where is it written the west must be terrorized? It's kind of like the Indian wars I guess. They grabbed an occasional scalp, we rounded em up and exterminated in toto. I guess the modus operandi is as it has always been. We are peaceful people but when pushed to war we will execute it with gusto and our goal will be total annihilation.
True. My personal saying is "Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups." However, I think that the ultimate suicide attack, i.e.: the potential destruction of your own people, just to kill off your enemies, is a little extreme. I don't see how even the most rabid terrorists could romanticize it for the popular consumption of the populace.
"2. Did anyone ever think that the people spreading this stuff around could be lied to? After all, the really vicious people are at the top of the Pallie terror groups, and no one know what they are capable of doing."
Sure they can be lied to. The press faithfully reports every lie they hear as "fact", usually from "unnamed sources". For a couple of decades, I've been under the impression that "journalists" don't even read the stuff they "report" to the public, or they would see that the patterns of behaviour of the terror groups they report on are not born out by the propaganda quoted in the media's own stories.
Neither Israel or the United States will use the terrorists methods against them because hiding in the dark and murdering children is neither "honorable" or "romantic"; it is base, cowardly and evil. We're cut from better cloth than terrorists.
Yeah, you've got a point. However, it wasn't "our romantic view of war" that I was referring to : it's the terrorist's "romantic view" of death and destruction."
Hey, I know we may have to do it again. As a historian with a passion for socioanthropology, I can see circumstances heading in that direction...again.
OK...the Israelis won't use biochemical weapons in Gaza for the same reason I hope the terrorists are bright enough not to : it's just a tad too close to their own neighborhoods. I'm saying that both the US and Israel have conventional weapons that'll do the job without turning the whole place into an uninhabitable wasteland.
If we nuke anything...I say we nuke Mecca and the meteor the Islamonazis worship. Just the SUGGESTION of us nuking Mecca sends them into PAROXISMS of terrified shouting, "Hey, you guys can't nuke Mecca".
The obvious answer is "'Course we can, silly. We just choose not to." [at this time] ROFLOL...the reaction is fun to watch. Nuking Mecca is attractive for two reasons: destruction of the Meteor and the "spiritual home" of their moon god, and also it's far enough away from Israel that there won't be such a problem with fallout.
No they wouldn't. They've had plenty of opportunity to use bioweapons. The perfect place would have been Lebanon. A healthy dose of Agent Orange to kill off all the Hezbullah terrorists hiding in the bushes would be much more effective than their current methods. But they didn't and don't.
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