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Politics : America Under Siege: The End of Innocence
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To: MSI who wrote (8896)10/28/2001 10:04:49 PM
From: CountofMoneyCristo  Read Replies (1) of 27666
 
We cannot win an escalating battle of violence.

That strikes me as a pretty defeatist attitude. It is also highly dangerous and I hope our government does not share your view on this subject. I wonder what would have been the result after December 7, 1941 if we had decided we could not win "an escalating battle of violence."

By the way, if these terrorists or the states who sponsor them attack us again like they did on September 11, take a poll. I believe it is likely that at that point there will be an enormous clamor among the American public to introduce nuclear weapons into this conflict. Funny, if the United States is attacked at will, thousands are brutally murdered in public, and it lacks the will to use ALL weapons it possesses to defend itself against evil, then the deterrent value of American military power will be virtually nil.

During the Gulf War Saddam Hussein was warned that if he used biological or chemical weapons there would be an American nuclear response. I think it is fast becoming obvious that Iraq has been involved in these atrocities. So, the choices are two: a massive conventional invasion and occupation, or a nuclear strike as a warning. The former is infinitely preferable. If another major attack takes place, the government may no longer have the public behind the former option, leaving only the latter. That is not the position we want to be in right now.
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