[cake_crumb]

"This stuff can't be too dangerous or transmittable or the Israelis would be using it agains the Palis. This is the part I never got. Whatever douchebag Saddam has, we have in spades. Obviously it's not that much of a threat if our response can easily be magnified 100 fold."

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.

[kinghorse]

That's a reasonable reply in the early stages of a conflict. Check your history books for the evolution of a romanticized vision of war to the concept of total war in the Pacific circa 1942-44. After a few months of kamikazes and dug in fanatics on the islands dotting the Pacific, our romantic view of war dimmed and we had little moral trouble firebombing 100,000 civilians to hell in one evening over Tokyo. So don't feed me that better cloth argument. We just haven't gotten warmed up yet =).