JQ, Ray, Cosmo,
It strikes me you are focussing on the wrong issue. Forget about revenge, forget about counterattack. What we need is a strategic and long term plan to gain intelligence on, infiltrate, get exact locations on terrorist organizations and strike them first. You find out about a new terrorist group which calls for violence and martyrdom against the great Satan (or the Eiffel Tower or wherever) and you simply take them out. Without attribution, without claiming credit, maybe via third parties, unsavory parties. Preemptive strikes, not post incident attacks. You support, actively, insurgency groups against the current spate of dictators and extremists.
After the Cole, with our intelligence, we should have found the location of all terrorists and done what was necessary. Not a solo helicopter burning up in a failed attempt a la Jimmy Carter but sufficient muscle and explosive power to finish all the camps or at least set them back 20 years.
Face it, we are at war, and probably alone, against world terrorism. What we have to do won't be pretty but it will be necessary.
Newest reports have it that the kamikaze pilots may have trained at a Daytona, FL flight training institute.
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