Question by mbez1: Is there another solution to terrorism besides military deployments?
In September, 9/11/01 will be 10 years past. Since then, we have deployed millions of troops, civil servants, and gov’t contractors into Iraq and Afghanistan. Our import / export ratio is at an all time high. We are completely dependent on foreign oil. Most of our manufacturing jobs have left the country, compliments of corrupt unions. What made America strong is gone. We are living on borrowed time. Why do we chase thugs halfway around the world with borrowed Chinese money? Is it to prove that we’re still “tough”? Why don’t we show our toughness to the world by kicking some butt economically? Cut off oil imports, mandate electric cars! No one said a gasoline car was a birthright! Tax the hell out of imports; make manufacturing products a top priority. FIX OUR DAMN ROADS AND BRIDGES! In a nutshell–stop worrying about the rest of the world when our own nation is falling apart. Yes, go attack Al Queda. Go find who and where they are and kill them. You don’t need 100,000 troops to do this. Send in hit squads and bring them home. Rescind the mandate that we can’t kill leaders of foreign nations. Why not? Because they will try to kill ours? Ha. Folks, if you can’t tell, I’m angry. 9/11/01 is 10 years past, and we just got UBL. You should be mad too. I pay tens of thousands of dollars in sales, real estate, and income taxes every year. Where does it go? Certainly not to public works or schools. But I feel better that my money went to build a road and a school in Afghanistan…gimme a break.
Thanks. The Russians and Israelis deal harshly with terrorism and they still get bombed. It just ups the ante. It’s like this: They bomb us, we bomb them. They bomb us harder, we bomb them harder. Israelis never know when something’s going to blow up. Do we want to live like this? I don’t know what they answer is. I guess go find the killers and take them out. I like the way the US handled UBL. Take him out, get proof he’s dead, and throw him to the fishes. No monuments; just return him to the primordial soup.
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Answer by jwthoughts
The solution to terrorism is simple, but too many are afraid of it.
When a group attacks the US, we should attack with BRUTAL force…not targeted, not “like force” BRUTAL. Shock and Awe was a decent start, but not enough.
If they attack us again, we should use a tactical nuke to hit a stronghold.
If they attack again, turn that area into a glass parking lot.
As long as we use limited responses, they are only emboldened.
We need to make the consequences for attacking the United States SO great and widely known that they do not dare.
ADDED for additional details: ARE YOU KIDDING? The Russians deal harder with their own people than with terrorists and Israel keeps being held back by the US. We should tell Israel…do what you gotta do and we got your back. Your idea of escalating violence is way off base. IT should look like this. They bomb the WTC…we bomb a city. They fly planes into the WTC…we bomb the crap out of a nation. They hit us again, WE NUKE ‘EM. The problem is that we are doing as you said. They bomb us, we bomb them, they bomb us, we bomb them.
Liken it to a street fight. If someone smacked me in the face, I would not smack him back and continue to trade punches. I would LITERALLY grab his balls and YANK HARD…whichever is more convenient.
1. He is IMMEDIATELY out of the fight.
2. He is VERY leery to come back.
3. People who hear about it are likely not to attack for fear of their nuts.
If he did ever come back, and say he brought a baseball bat…I would pull out my 9mm and pop a cap in his crotch.
It sounds brutal…I do not care. This is not a boxing match, a wrestling match or any other sanctioned fight. It is a street fight with one rule…do what you can do make them unable or unwilling to continue to try and hurt you.
In the long run, I have done less damage then fighting fist to fist once a week.
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