Okay.. I would like to submit the following.

Take all American women who are within five years of menopause - train us for a few weeks, outfit us with automatic weapons, grenades, gas masks, moisturizer with SPF15, Prozac, hormones, chocolate, and canned tuna -drop us (parachuted, preferably) across the landscape of Afghanistan, and let us do what comes naturally.

Think about it. Our anger quotient alone, even when doing standard stuff like grocery shopping and paying bills, is formidable enough to make even armed men in turbans tremble.

We've had our children, we would gladly suffer or die to protect them and their future. We'd like to get away from our husbands, if they haven't left already. And for those of us who are single, the prospect of finding a good man with whom to share life is about as likely as being struck by lightning.

We have nothing to lose.

We've survived the water diet, the protein diet, the carbohydrate diet, and the grapefruit diet in gyms and saunas across America and never lost a pound. We can easily survive months in the hostile terrain of Afghanistan with no food at all!

We've spent years tracking down our husbands or lovers in bars, hardware stores, or sporting events...finding bin Laden in some cave will be no problem.

Uniting all the warring tribes of Afghanistan in a new government? Oh, please ... we've planned the seating arrangements for in-laws and extended families at Thanksgiving dinners for years ... we understand tribal warfare.

Between us, we've divorced enough husbands to know every trick there is for how they hide, launder, or cover up bank accounts and money sources. We know how to find that money and we know how to seize it ... with or without the government's help!

Let us go and fight. The Taliban hates women. Imagine their terror as we crawl like ants with hot-flashes over their godforsaken terrain.

Good night bump..

I'll echo Rush Limbaugh's sentiment on this and say that we should be worried if the Pentagon is actually looking for ideas. I mean seriously, we give these guys over $300 billion a year, and they want us to do their homework for them? What's up with that?

Agreed,,

HEHEHEHEHEHEHHE!

How's this for an idea, Mr. Gubmint: Take your Eschelon and all other satellites that you are using to observe everyday citizens and train them full time on the nations that produce and train the terrorists! My email would boor you silly anyway! LOL

Here's a concept of war for hellholes like Afghanistan which must be throttled with a minimum outlay of American blood, and without constant bombing or the use of nukes. A war where the cost benefit ratio would be in our favor militarily, economically, and politically.

I'd like to try a new form of quarantine warfare using hundreds of mass produced Hellfire equipped UAVs and thousands of video/FLIR/laser designating surveillance packages hidden on remote inaccessible cliffs. The targeting pods would run off solar panels and upload their imagery. Their lasers would provide target points to jets or UAVs overhead. The UAVs on their own would circle relentlessly around Afghanistan, looking for targets.

No Americans would be put at risk of capture and torture, yet the Taliban and Al Qaida leadership would live in dread of every journey out of doors. No terrorist training camp could ever reopen, the leaders would live in hiding in a virtual state of siege, waiting for a Hellfire missile with their name on it.

To support this operation, I would sieze one good sized airfield inside Afghanistan located on a defensible plain. Any attacks on this airfield would be easily brushed off.

Don't put troops on the ground in difficult terrain, let the remotely controlled missile equipped drones do the seeking and killing.

Since the attack drones will cost several million dollars each, build twenty decoy drones for each real model. These can be built to a smaller scale, run on lawnmower engines, and fly a predetermined course via GPS. Any of these under $10,000 drones shot down will only cost the enemy valuable AA resources, and bring the real killer drones in for a close look. Pretty soon, the enemy will stop shooting at any drones, and they will rule the sky, able to loiter at low altitude right over the terrorists' lairs, sending back imagery, and firing Hellfires on command.

Don't send in valuable ground troops to point lasers, that can be done better by drones and hidden sensor pods. And the drones can't be tortured to death on video if captured.

Agreed. I was always led to believe that these guys have all kinds of plans ready to be put into action, regardless of the scenario. Aren't these supposed to be the professionals with the answers? If not, what the heck have they been doing for the past who knows how many years? This "contest" certainly doesn't give one much confidence in their expertise!

I think it's a good idea. Just think about all of the new advances that developed on account of the space program. If there are some scientific, creative, patriotic Americans out there who have new ideas which will help us win this war....well, lets give them an opportunity to provide a service to their country.

got some ideas ... is this serious????

bttt

I agree with you about having some sort of creative outlet for people, but for the Pentagon to actually use these ideas implies that it somehow couldn't have thought of better ideas on its own. My question is, if this is true, then why are we spending $300 billion every year to fund them? I mean, instead of having billion dollar R+D budgets, why not sent out a "call for papers" every time the military needs a new idea?

What a joke. I tried contacting this website and it's all acronyns, JAVA, and JAVA script, wouldn't even work in my IE v5.5 SP2.

Typical government broadband website.

Well, here's one idea that has no cost to the gubmint attached to it ... and it will make you feel like you're actually doing something, and you really are! We can be the intel eyes for our law enforcement people ... they're over worked and under manned, and under manned is the way I like them to stay for when the war is over!

The United States is ready to entertain any idea on how to fight terrorism.

I've got one for starters.

Round up any and all Arab Moslem non-citizens, and...

Deport.

Deport.

Deport.

Deport.

DEPORT.

1. Any nation that calls for "death to america", we beat them to the punch.

2. Any organization that calls for "death to america", pursued regardless of what borders they hide behind.

3. Any domestic media outlet that sympathizes with the enemy, jailed and or executed for treason.

4. Any financial institution that knowingly handles transactions for terror organizations, we seize their US assets.

5. Use devastating firepower when fighting the enemy, kill the citizens as well as the terrorists, the citizens must be punished for not overthrowing a rogue regime.

6. Expel non citizens from hostile nations.

7. Use economic sanctions against Canada and Mexico unless they can provide better protection from terrorist infiltration into our country from their borders.

8. Death penalty for acts of terrorism. No ifs ands or buts.

9. Death penalty for acts of terrorism should be available for public viewing, international broadcast, and done in the same manner as the terrorist acted or intended.

10. Use assasination death squads globally. Kill people that even sympathize with terrorists.

11. Threaten the middle east with a complete oil embargo unless they eliminate terrorist threats within their borders.

12. Assure the world of first strike nuclear use if a threat is perceived.

Maybe it also serves as a message to the enemy that the fedgov and American citizens are working together as a team and we (citizens) are willing to fight against them any way we can even though we are not a offically in the military --- but we are the 'militia'...?

Sounds like a good idea, but I'd add a twist -- any plane -- active or drone -- should explode when captured or shot down. By explode, I don't mean "glorified firecracker" either. I mean the kind of explosion that leaves any survivors in serious need of an immediate diaper change and speech therapy. I mean "what do you mean that wasn't a nuke?" kind of explosion. I think our lab boys could cook something up to do the trick.

If they're going to shoot 'em down, they may as well know that they bite when they land. Hard.