[Travis McGee]

We're going to find out, sooner or later,

If Abdul will pray, to a glowing crater.

[Hatteras]

The US should take a lesson from my dad. When any of us would hit each other and start a fight, no matter who started what or why, EVERYONE got whacked.

[mikegi]

The part in the article about fallout shelters is dumb. By definition, we will not know when a terrorist attack will occur. The shelters would be useless.

What's weird is that in the late summer 2001 I posted on another board "What would we do if terrorists set off a nuke in the USA?". People responded as if I had two heads or something.

Anyway, I think that it is FAR more likely that WMDs would be in the form of a virus, not nukes. Terrorists send in a dozen Smallpox Samirs to fly around the USA infecting travellers.

Also, terrorists don't need WMDs to hurt us bigtime. I can think of a dozen simple attack strategies that would sow chaos here. Then the terrorists wait for their useful idiots in the MSM to do the rest of the terrorizing for them.

[Rakkasan1]

"Perhaps the meek shall inherit the Earth, but they'll do it in very small plots . . . about 6' by 3'."
-Robert A. Heinlein

[Indie]

"Contingency plans need to be made. And those plans, at least some of them, need to be known to the whole world to serve as a deterrent against such an attack. …" "… * The Islamist world and its allies need to know there will be an unprecedented nuclear response to any attack on the United States with weapons of mass destruction. We don't need to be specific about which major cities and installations will be vaporized. But it needs to be clear that the response will be overwhelming, resulting in far greater death and destruction than what is inflicted upon the United States.

This would have been common sense to Ronald Reagan, but is an alien concept to so-called conservatives today who worship TheParty as an idol rather than the views it no longer represents. Let's see if the usual suspect apologist RINO/CINO "bot" population shows up here to blast this idea and tell us all about Bush's "religion of peace" and "the big tent."

[Scythian]

Don't panic but I believe in the end there is no response we can make, we cannot nuke an entire populace over what a few individuals do. In the end, if this indeed does happen, Bush will be baced with a terrible decision and the only one he will morally be able to make, and that is, there is no response other than trying to rebuild.

Looking towards the future however, maybe we'll we close off the borders and simply seal off our country entirely, that will be the only choice.

[monday]

from the article; "Do they really want to see their cities vaporized? Do they really want to see their religious centers destroyed? Do they really want to see adherents to their ideology and their faith killed in massive numbers as a direct result of their actions? "

The answer is yes, they do. These people send their children to be suicide bombers. They live to be martyrs for allah. Of course they want us to vaporize their cities, etc. etc.

I think we should oblige them.