hopefully the world's approach to terrorism will become more aggressive... the gloves come off.
i mentioned in another thread my opinion that the environment in which the majority of terrorist groups currently opperate needs to be taken away. the US and her allies should announce (and enforce!) a "gihad" (sp?) against any group/org/state/country/nation that conducts or condones or encourages or harbors terrorist activities or groups. no more economic sanctions -- if a country is found to be guilty of such crimes, the US should actually attack it, destroy its military capabilities, and confiscate its resources. hopefully it would not be necessary to do this again to any other entities, if executed properly.
this particular attack on the US is a very good excuse for setting an extremely harsh, and strong example, assuming it can be determined who is ultimately responsible -- there will certainly be a understandable sense of righteousness and little sympathy worldwide for the perpetrators. We have been treating terrorists and other threats with our own rules, and not theirs... let them have cause to fear a USA that has actually reached its limits of tolerance, and is not interested in being tied up in the rhetoric of politics and mission statements. in many cases of foreign policy, it is only by the US's good graces that it explains itself and its actions... if these (according to this attack) are the rules that they want to play by, then it's time for the US to stop explaining and say "just 'cuz" when they react to end the possibilities of such acts as have happened today. "a war to end all wars" may not exist, but the groups that are responsible for/endorse these actions do not deserve to face a United States that is wearing gloves.
ps. i'm looking back at what i've written and it may be one of the harshest views i've ever publicly expressed; i DO think that my anger has played a role in my assertations and that it should be tempered, as all actions have repercussions to consider. but the philosophy stands as it is, and i believe it should be incorporated prominantly into US foreign policy in respect to terrorism. i hate that it has come to this, and i'm grieving for the people that have been and will be caught up in the current and resulting bloodshed... today i'm grieving for americans, and in the future, i will grieve for the inevitable loss of innocent lives via american retaliation... but whose fault will those deaths be? i say the terrorists.
pss. another thing; prompted by my at least partial agreement shuxclams: BOMBS are the way to go. these groups do not deserve a chance to take potshots or win a little glory at taking american lives. let them understand just how superior a military force they are facing, as they cower in their bunkers with their suitcase bombs and small arms in their laps as US bombers relentlessly pound away from miles above them. let their soviet-cloned vietnam-era mig fleets be crippled and destroyed by supersonic US air force jets from a distance 2x outside their surveillence capabilities, yet 3x within ours. let them have no hope... except that the US will take pity and allow them to reenter a world that was too kind to them by far in the first place.
i mentioned in another thread my opinion that the environment in which the majority of terrorist groups currently opperate needs to be taken away. the US and her allies should announce (and enforce!) a "gihad" (sp?) against any group/org/state/country/nation that conducts or condones or encourages or harbors terrorist activities or groups. no more economic sanctions -- if a country is found to be guilty of such crimes, the US should actually attack it, destroy its military capabilities, and confiscate its resources. hopefully it would not be necessary to do this again to any other entities, if executed properly.
this particular attack on the US is a very good excuse for setting an extremely harsh, and strong example, assuming it can be determined who is ultimately responsible -- there will certainly be a understandable sense of righteousness and little sympathy worldwide for the perpetrators. We have been treating terrorists and other threats with our own rules, and not theirs... let them have cause to fear a USA that has actually reached its limits of tolerance, and is not interested in being tied up in the rhetoric of politics and mission statements. in many cases of foreign policy, it is only by the US's good graces that it explains itself and its actions... if these (according to this attack) are the rules that they want to play by, then it's time for the US to stop explaining and say "just 'cuz" when they react to end the possibilities of such acts as have happened today. "a war to end all wars" may not exist, but the groups that are responsible for/endorse these actions do not deserve to face a United States that is wearing gloves.
ps. i'm looking back at what i've written and it may be one of the harshest views i've ever publicly expressed; i DO think that my anger has played a role in my assertations and that it should be tempered, as all actions have repercussions to consider. but the philosophy stands as it is, and i believe it should be incorporated prominantly into US foreign policy in respect to terrorism. i hate that it has come to this, and i'm grieving for the people that have been and will be caught up in the current and resulting bloodshed... today i'm grieving for americans, and in the future, i will grieve for the inevitable loss of innocent lives via american retaliation... but whose fault will those deaths be? i say the terrorists.
pss. another thing; prompted by my at least partial agreement shuxclams: BOMBS are the way to go. these groups do not deserve a chance to take potshots or win a little glory at taking american lives. let them understand just how superior a military force they are facing, as they cower in their bunkers with their suitcase bombs and small arms in their laps as US bombers relentlessly pound away from miles above them. let their soviet-cloned vietnam-era mig fleets be crippled and destroyed by supersonic US air force jets from a distance 2x outside their surveillence capabilities, yet 3x within ours. let them have no hope... except that the US will take pity and allow them to reenter a world that was too kind to them by far in the first place.
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