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What should we say as a deterent to a nuclear attack? What should we do if the terrorists attacked us by nuclear means?
Bomb Mecca and/or Medina, which could bring Turkey and other Muslim allies (and intra-US Muslims) against us
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Bomb the capital city of the main funding governments of the terrorists (mainly Saudi Arabia, Syria, and Iran)
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Continue what we're doing now
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Other
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 33%  [ 4 ]
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PostMon Aug 15, 2005 12:16 pm    

Republican_Man wrote:
Funding for WMDs in the hands of terrorists If they were to set off a nuclear weapon, then they'd have to have had a SIGNIFICANT amount of funding
And we CAN win the WOT...It'll just take decades. Sure, ideology is the key, but you can beat it through other means--by getting RID of the terrorists. And doing that can significantly damage their ideoloical power as well.


Granted, nukes take money. But terrorism in general does not take huge sums. That's one of the reasons it is soooooo popular.

And even though I support the idea of using force, remember that these "terrorists" we kill are someone's father, brother, uncle, cousin, etc. So all we are doing in their eyes is killing their relatives. And it's faulty logic to believe that they will decide "I better not become a terrorist because I might get killed" when they already decide "I am going to become a terrorist so I will be killed (and become a heroic martyr for Islam)."

I still say it will be easier to remove their ability to fight than their will.



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PostTue Aug 16, 2005 11:34 am    

I wish the Terrorists would all go to one country, have a flag and slap on some uniforms.

That'd make things so much easier. Western warfare, that's what we're used to.

But this isn't Western Warfare, it's nothing like Western Warfare, which is why, as Superman said, things that worked in World War II probably won't work in this war.

Bombing Mecca is rediculous, I don't know how you can even consider it. And so is bombing the capital cities. If it's something we should've learned it's that the terrorists are everywhere, across the world. You probably have terrorists holed up in America too.

So why don't you go ahead and bomb some American cities, too. There could be terrorists in them. And bomb Europe, they're probably hiding here too. And Asia, and...hey, just bomb the whole world, that'll solve the problem.

There IS another way than to bomb cities, levelling them to the ground. I don't have it, though. There's always another way.


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PostTue Aug 16, 2005 12:06 pm    

^Please suggest another way. I would gladly like to hear one
And also, you seem to fail to understand the purpose of that idea. It's not to kill the terrorist so much as to a) show that we really mean what we say and really take a stand stronger than the terrorists now see AND b) stop the funding and support that these nations would be giving to the terrroists that would have alowed them to gain access to the nukes.



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