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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: carranza2 who wrote (152958)11/30/2004 10:24:29 AM
From: michael97123  Read Replies (3) of 281500
 
C2,
Saudi religous approval should put saudi religous sites at risk if you are playing the deterrence game in creative fashion. Do you think retaliation against mecca by the US stops bin laden from carrying this out?
I am just asking the question and am not getting any takers because a Yes answer forces us to employ this means and that would not be PC. During the cold war, there wouldn't have been one target in the USSR that would have escaped targeting for deterrent reasons if it was something the soviet leaders valued. Nor would the soviets have spared any particular US site. Saudi wahabis give the ok to bin laden. Bodansky says obl is readying such attack. Along with trying to prevent it, we should be employing this form of deterrence if our intelligence folks think there is a reasonable chance of it working to deter. As i have said before I do not have enough knowledge to say yes or no to this option. I was counting on someone here who might know more about what a guy like obl is thinking. If he is a devout muslim, i think he would have a problem trading mecca for a US target, but this is only a guess on my part. Mike
PS Bodansky has been an alarmist since 9/11 fyi. He was predicting a dirty bomb in 2001-2002 on msnbc.
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