Originally posted by: Astaroth33
MinorityReport: What do you propose? What would you like to see happen in the long run?
Dear Astaroth,
I would suggest a balance between economic interests and safety of citizens.
Mr Tennet, CIA director, mentioned that the threat to US and its interests remains as bad as it was the summer of 2000, just before 9/11, today on TV.
So what does this signify ? Islamic Terrorism is a truly global wave. From Bali to Manhattaan, Moscow to Delhi, everywhere they can strike. But that does not mean they will ever win. Or terrorists will ever give up.
What I propose ( with my limited qualifications, education and humble understanding ) is this :
1) Recruit people of similar cultures, look, qualities and penetrate the enemy with intelligence than might
2) Take off ambuiguity : For example Bali, Indonesia. Its a well known that Indonesia, the most populous moslen nation has some terror sympathizers.
But does it mean we brand whole of Indonesia as evil ? Now take Pakistan at other end. Most of pakistan is pro Taleban and Osama. Yet they are allys.
3) Arab Frustration and modern Slavery :
I have spoken to several young, educated Arabs (when i was in KSA, working for ARAMCO, in Dahran. ). Their hate for the Kings and monarchs is more than their hate for infediels.
US supports regiemes that torture, exploit, kill, their own citizens and are dicatorial monarchs. Not is it US who is responsible for this dilema. No we are not. It is upto the citizens of those nations to establish democracy. But easier said than done.
Try registering an anti- Saudi Monarch website or publish anti monarch voews on any US newspaper.
Within a week you will get calls from the lobby groups and their lawyers. IF you are a Saudi citizen, forget your family.
Hundreds of young men are taken to the desert and left there to the vultures every year.
Hell, even Saudia Arabia beheads people in public, lynches women and stones adulters to death in year 2002.
What would you do if you were a young educated Arab from KSA who cannot live the way the want to ? To millions of them, Osama and terror or Jihad is the weapon to freedom and liberty. It is immense frustration and brain washing that leads to support for terror.
To every moslem, Saudia is the holy land and thsi even makes matters worse.
Saudia Arabia is the root cause of Islamic terrorism in the world. Fix Saudia, terror will reduce by 50%.
By fix means throw present govt, establish democracy and let the citizens be busy with their own affairs. Keep them busy with stuff and they will forget terror. Also with M16's in every corner, terror will be in their own homes. In the meantime, drill as much oil as possible.
Now everything requires money and brains.
If Saudia is the wallet then, the brains of the Islamic terror is Pakistan.
Do not forget Pakistan is the only moslem nation to have nukes. And they have no worries to use them on neighbours and elsewhere.
Mark my word : IF there EVER is a nuke on western targets by terrorist, it will be "made in pakistan".
Fix Pakistan next. Just bomb it from top to bottom .... they do not have oil so nothing to lose. Ask Israel / India for help. Use them as canon fodder like we did with the allies in Gulf War.
If all this is real hard to comprehend, use a dirty way.
3) For example today 60 armed Chechens took over 600 russians in Moscow.
The next day, use your OWN terrorists ( make sure they do not turn against you ) and capture 6000 Chechens and kill 10 times they did.
Use a diamond to cut another.
If you can show a nation that supports terror that you TOO can do it in THEIR backyard, TEN fold, they will not sleep every night.
But all this is theory and the US politicians have no use of such strategies.
This is how present day US works :
1) 9/11 : US attacked : 3000 dead .. pentagon/ DC etc etc attacked
2) Launch investigation
3) find scape goat/ hide errors, weakness, lacks
most improtant >> 4) think of a way to PROFIT from this situation
My dear friend PROFIT is what counts .. not deaths of Americans. Who profits ? Maybe we common middle class people do in someway. But those at top benefit the most.
To the government machinery, it means profit to its funders and supporters. Incresase defense spending. Military contractors happy.
Make Homeland Security a $100 billion a year : more companies happier.
Oil companies pulling your pants down ? Oh well .. give them Central Asia and Iraq.
Media hanging you down > Pay them and play with human emotions post 9/11
What I mean to say is terrorism will never end considering present cirumstances. And this is just the begining. God forbid a nuke goes off in US soil.
Whom, and where to retaliate ? Iraq ? Indochina ? KSA ?
Lets hope that option never shows up and our intelligence, military and govenment tackle this the best way possible in balancing both safety and economic interests.
As a note : The amount of firepower US has, it does not need any ally or support for ANY war. We have to be prepared to die thats it.
If we can sacrifice 5,000 lives, entire Arab peninsula will be ours in a year.
Hell even all moslem nations unite and fight as a billion against US, they would last a month max.
But no need. Make them fight each other .. and keep DRILLING
🙂
