Hawk, if Osama and co make a major attack on the USA, such as a noocular bomb in downtown San Diego, or Washington DC, or several simultaneously, [their modus operandi], I agree it would be a mistake.
<The question is whether this will be a WMD attack, similar to what was planned in Jordan, or conventional>
I don't think they'd be better off with Kerry, who I believe has in person killed and destroyed in Vietnam, so he would easily get back in the saddle if the need arose. I suspect he'd be even more enthusiastically militaristic.
It might be fun to conduct a nuclear bomb attack on the USA, but strategically, it would not achieve the goal of getting them out of Saudi Arabia, Israel etc and retreating to the USA. It would cause the USA to go bananas. It would be a big mistake.
Better to whittle away at them in foreign lands, so the USA soldiers just want to go home and the public questions the point of the process. Bringing it on in Iraq, one soldier or foreigner at a time, is better than enraging the giant.
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