Tancredo: Threaten to bomb Muslim holy sites in retaliation

You are forgetting something vital. Did we ever attack Russia, either? No because they could have wiped us ut in return. It was mutual asured destrution (MAD) that kept the Cold War from going hot. Russia is still the only country that threatens us with destruction. As emotionally devastating as 9/11 was, it was pinprick that didn't come close to hurting us. Osama had thought it would collapse our economy . . . fat chance. These terrorists are international criminals that need to be run down and eliminated, one-by-one. One billion muslims are not the ememy-- a few thousand islamist extremists are the enemy.

Attacking a country that didn't attack us is absurd, have you learned nothing from Iraq? Attacking a religious symbol gains us nothing . . . except about a billion new enemies.

It's a just a misplaced revenge fantasy, not a strategy at all.

In any case, Israel has it covered. If Israel is ever in danger of being overrun by Arab enemies, there will be mushroom clouds over Mecca and Medina. But it will be Israel's swan song, too.

 

You can't seem to understand the enemy. We have failed to capture or kill those repsonsible for 9/11, so we must try to kill every muslim on the planet? Make a war on an entire religion? It's just . . . not . . . possible. There is no profit in it and tons of liabilities. Look Al Qaida is the enemy, NOT ISLAM. Of the billion or so muslims in the world, only a few thousand Al Qaida international criminals have attacked the United States of America. Not hostile muslim countries like Iran, Libya, Pakistan, Sudan, etc. No other islamic terrorists, like the Black September, Fatah, Hamas, Hezbollah who are focused on Israel. Certainly not the millions and millions of iliterate third-world muslims who are just trying to make a living and really don't give a chit.

Focus! Al Qaida is the enemy. AQ propaganda is all based on portraying a war between Islam and the United States and selling this to the muslims. Why in the world would you buy right into it? Al Qaida wants us to go off on doomed lemming-like crusades against anybody but them. They want to to attack muslims who are not involved in this fight against us. This is the kind of stuff that creates hate of America among otherwise indifferent muslims. Many muslim countries are allied with us or are sitting the fence. We can't drive these into the arms of our enemies.

Al Qaida wants us to overreach instead of focusing on their destruction. Don't listen to these raghead bastards. Focus! Islam is not the problem. We need to be turning these guys against each other instead of rallying them to unite against us! It's easy enough to do, they are completely tribal and naturally all hate each other. We have done this sucessfully for decades until this recent debacle.

Now Al Qaida is successfully dividing us against our allies and suckering us into fighting the wrong war. January 2009 can not come fast enough for us to get a president with some perception and wisdom. Someone who thinks with his brains instead of his balls and understands the difference between strategy and reaction.

Exactly. This is not a nuclear war versus another superpower who could destroy us. This is not a mechanized war against the armies of an enemy. This is a war against small bands of organized criminals who run an underground terror campaign.

FIRST, we must refuse to be terrified. Then we must recognize that it is a political and criminal problem that must be addressed with conniving and devious political influence, bribery, and economic coersion, combined with intelligence, CIA infiltration, special forces raids, precise air strikes, and other focused covert actions against Al Qaida specifically. You can kill a deer by burning down the forest, but it's a lot smarter to just search, find, follow, and shoot the friggin' deer.

One at a time. Focus on the real problem and refuse to be distracted by propaganda, side issues, marginal problems and imaginary ones.

Do you imagine that one holy shrine is all that motivates them? What kind of motivation would wanton destruction of it be . . . along with genocide? Our closest allies would abandon us. The Roman, Napoleonic, and British empires fell because they overeached and their enemies joined against them. The US is powerful, but not invincible, especially if the entire world is against us. We would not survive it. Osama would win.

Destroying some cities will not eliminate Islam. It didn't even eliminate Japan or Germany.

 

I know because I've actually bothered to research it instead of letting myself be frightened by a non-existant boogieman. You don't even know what the Nation of Islam is. That's Louis Farrakhan and the black muslims, it's not Islam, the religion.

Most of the muslims you think we can kill are not remotely involved in any conflict with us, anywhere. It's a fact.

I see, you just have a need to rant. It doesn't sem to matter to you that eliminating a billion muslims is IMPOSSIBLE. We can't even eliminate the 30,000 insurgents in Iraq!

Don't you think we should at least START by killing the actual Al Qaida terrorists who attacked us before we start wasting what's left of our fortune and our military by the futile, endless, and bankrupting task of trying kill every muslim on the planet?