"Gould 0738" wrote in message
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Chuck, you need to use logic and foresight to see what is happening in
the
mid-east. Your view is to small which limits your ability to see the big
picture.

Jesse James and company rode out of Missouri.

If every time they held up a bank, the government declared martial law in
first
Kansas, then Nebraska, then Oklahoma,
etc etc etc......how would that be any different than what we're doing/
planning to do now? Certainly would have never caught the James/Younger
Gang
(many of whom learned you don't screw around with a Minnesota farmer's
money)

Foreign governments may not be our friends, but neither is any foreign
government the enemy that brazenly and criminally attacked us. We need to
put
down the dog proven to be rabid first.....and then if we need to look at
other
dogs that could possibly be infected too, we should.

All foriegn governments are our enemy. At times we treat them like friends.

I'm all for getting those criminal *******s.
Absolutely. Work within or outside the confines of international law to
get it
done.
Any country worth a dinkle would help us out or at least stand back and
let us
bring these *******s to death or trial. No **** ant country would dare
protest
us
going in to extract bin Ladin, and our allies would either help or keep
silent.
Who would want to side with Osama bin Ladin?

Crime is a term used in a civil socitety to describe unwanted behavior. In
uncivilized societies there is no crime there is only survival.

Don't forget that 90% of the country was rootin' for GWB when he said he
was
out to get OBL, "dead or alive". Too bad we lost focus.

Lost focus? We changed our plans to fit the mission. What purpose would it
serve to kill OBL now?

If our current foreign policy is an effective response to 9-11, the
majority of
people cannot see just how. (Bush can't say "There is no connection" one
month,
and then say "We're avenging the 9-11 massacre" the next). If our current
foreing policy is not a direct respoinse to 9-11, we have every right in
the
world to ask why it isn't.

We are fighting the terrorist's, enemies of the US, on their soil rather
than on our own soil. How would you like a homicide bomber to walk into your
local pizza parlor and blow the place up?

Solving terorism in general is no higher than item "B", if that's what the
justification for Iraq etc is. Item "A" should be bringing down the
*******
that is already attacking us *now*.

All in good time. As I said before, take off the blinders and try to see the
big picture. Look ten, twenty or even fifty years into the future and
visualize what you want the world to look like and then start making it
happen. I want a world where my children and grandchildren are safe from
harm. Letting the terrorists take over won't provide a safe future.