Quite frankly in order to prevent a bio or chem assualt along with the INCREASING likelihood of us being victimized by Nuclear blackmail we MUST consider going after these punks families..... The sooner they realize they'll risk destroying their ENTIRE FAMILY the better!!!...

What you suggest is totally at variance with basic American principles.

This is the methodology of a Stalin, not a Washington or Jefferson. It is also not quite the effective tool that you suggest. Many of the terrorists are rebels. Many may in fact be motivated by hatred of their own families.

We do not need to surrender basic decency--or our code of ethics--to win this war.

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Not sure if it was deleted because of word usage, or because of political correctedness.

I imagine this one won't last long, but personally, I took offense to the targetting of children.

I don't know about the rest of you, but this goes against everything I believe in.

What you suggest is totally at variance with basic American principles.

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They are those that have no regard for the innocent, embodied in children.

We are not them.

Although some will be able to introduce strong evidence refuting my assertation in post 5, I'm sorry to say.

Perhaps it's time for a far reaching evaluation of our perogatives.

As GWB said "It's a different kind of War". I have become very hard since 9/11. Better their kids than mine.

One need always keep in mind, also, that the evil of evil means is that in time they become in themselves ends. In abandoning our principles, we accede to the world view of Barbarians, and invite a future ugly almost beyond comprehension.

As I have suggested in a draft article, War 2001! The Shortest Path To Victory, we should focus on the Internationalist brigand aspect of the enemy. What those who want to adopt Stalinist tactics are suggesting, would only fuel the recruiting of a whole new generation of terrorists on University campuses, across North Africa and Asia.

I have become very hard since 9/11. Better their kids than mine.

What you suggest would greatly increase the number of people in the world who would make your children a target. It would also be something that would haunt your children and grandchildren's image of their own civilization for a lifetime. This is not the way to respond.

William Flax Return Of The Gods Web Site

I'll check it out.

"Perhaps it's time for a far reaching evaluation of our prerogatives."

It's also time for a definition of our objectives. We've handled these people with kid gloves for decades. We've shipped them food and endowed them with largesse. We sent them weapons to oppose a Soviet invasion. We've contributed demining personnel. We looked aside when many of their governments nationalized petroleum industries that had been built at the expense and labor of westerners. We've taken in their immigrants, graciously offering them jobs and educations. We've sacrificed American lives in Lebanon, Somalia and Bosnia to protect them from their own repressive regimes and medieval warlords, and tried to help them bring order to their chaotic, miserable lives.

They showed us their gratitude on 9/11.

As disturbing as the images of the WTC were, I was more disgusted by the images of Palestinian children dancing in the streets celebrating the death of your and my fellow Americans.

While I've long repressed the thought, at that moment, it became obvious to me that these people only understand brute force and ignorance. If that is how we must communicate with them, it is because they refuse to accept the more civil means of communication we have attempted for at least 50 years now.

In the kind of war our enemy has chosen, we would do far better to study the likes of Quantrell, Sherman, and Francis Marion. I would hope that we would commit ourselves to such tack before you and yours suffer the pains of Tabun, Sarin, Anthrax, Smallpox, Lewisite, airliners, carbombs, bubonic plague or any other means of death our enemies would not have the slightest hesitation in using against us, given the opportunity.

The single most vulnerable aspect of Communism--as Anarchism before it--and as the Terrorist movement today--was that the Communists were Internationalists--like Pirates and Medieval outlaws, men who showed no respect for the borders and National prerogatives of the distinct peoples of the earth; criminal elements who sought to plunder the fruits of the labor of the established leadership of every nation; arrogant bullies who sought to trash the cultural integrity of every people.

From FDR on--if not before--the Leftwing in America has gravitated towards our State Department. Career players, they remain in positions of influence--often controlling the perceptions of reality--

"It would also be something that would haunt your children
and grandchildren's image of their own civilization for a lifetime"

Well, I suppose if my children and grandchildren are killed by these nuts they
won't have to worry about negative self-image problems.
If terrorists know that their families will be killed if they commit terrorist acts,
then it is on their heads, their choice I would feel regret, but no compunction, hesitation or guilt.

Crawsh yah enemees. See dem driven befaah you. And hear da lamentations of deir women.

That's Conaan's advice.

We've taken in their immigrants, graciously offering them jobs and educations. We've sacrificed American lives in Lebanon, Somalia and Bosnia to protect them from their own repressive regimes and medieval warlords, and tried to help them bring order to their chaotic, miserable lives.

They showed us their gratitude on 9/11.

As disturbing as the images of the WTC were, I was more disgusted by the images of Palestinian children dancing in the streets celebrating the death of your and my fellow Americans.

Undoubtably, many of these people dancing have extremely successful relatives living in the USA. Your point is not lost on me.

What is worse is to see them dancing within our own gates.

"Crawsh yah enemees. See dem driven befaah you. And hear da lamentations of deir women."
That's Conaan's advice.

Yes, but NBC still didn't give him Leno's slot.

The point is, they have already made my children a target.

I have become very hard since 9/11.

Me too. Try to resist it.