<<I understand and respect your thoughts, but YES, they will hold a major city (or 435 women and children in a Christian religious retreat in the mountains of Tennesse) hostage. NetGuySC has some very valid points.
I can understand (I'll try very hard) your Liberal, warm fuzzy, there's no evil in my world attitude. Ignorance is not bad. It's just ignorance. Obviously, you don't quite comprehend what happened on 20010911. The United States of America sacrificed approximately 8,000 (that's Eight Thousand) American lives in the name of Freedom.
There is a time to be polite and to be The Great Example of Extreme Humility in the world, and then there's a time to Beat Up The Schoolyard Bully. Now is that time.
Oh, I can hear you whining already. "Wah....but they have innocent, peaceful Islamic women and children who don't deserve this" and "Wahhhhhhh, if we do this we are no better than them..'"
Guess what? Tough sh!t. If we do not respond in kind, some Islamic Jihad Profanity Shouting American Hating Arab Guy may be buggering you anallly this time next year. And all your liberal, feel-good, attempting to rationalize with barbarians 'tude wont' mean squat.
I hope you realize (think about it, then read your history book...the OLD one, not the one written during the Clinton Administration whose ideals you grasp) that folks that think like you did not build this country. Folks that think like you didn't keep us from becoming part of Nazi Germany, Japan and the USSR (in that order) it's folks who had the nuts to stand up for what they believe in and back it up with a fist to the fact that have kept this country free. I would not want to be in a foxhole with you. That's for sure.>>
I don't see where you get the idea that I'm trying to get all soft on this issue. How does your idea of killing Osama bin Laden versus my idea of putting him through our judicial system makes you anymore tough and me more passive? If you want to really punish bin Laden for his acts and try to get as much misery from him as possible, then jailing him would be much much more painful that letting him die an easy death. And remember this is all about bin Laden. As for the rest of the terrorists, I don't care if we send them to hell or not although we should be careful of the collateral damages. I'm thinking rationally for the long run in the best interests this country. If you honestly think your brutality ideology carried this country to where it is now, then you are mistaken son.