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To: unclewest who wrote (123331)7/5/2005 9:17:02 AM
From: michael97123  Read Replies (1) of 793902
 
"The challenge is huge. Our military is quite small. Something has to be changed."

On this we agree Mike. I think you have identified part of the problem regarding the clinton administration. Remedying that is only part of the equation if your numbers of muslim millitants capable of suicide bombing are borne out.
So in addition to what you want to do domestically to increase the forces, I would suggest we consider the following:
1. buring the hatchet over iraq on both sides and somehow getting the euros to accept the threat for what it is. This will take alot of time, perhaps too much.
2. We also need to strengthen ties with russians and chinese on this issue as well. For instance we have some conflicted policies regarding all the stans including the old soviet ones. Support democracy yes, but dont get fooled by islamic extremists playing the democracy card.
3. Assuming 1&2 either fail or take forever or even if they succeed, we need some assymetric warfare of our own. Maybe along with special forces to do some of the fighting and prep for fighting, we do not rule out the use of nukes anymore? Even jihadists have families and the threat of nukes would be jarring. Perhaps a fireworks display of our own might have some merit down the road.

I am throwing this all out for discussion. I have certainly not thought out #3 fully. I was thinking of a time where the enemy has used a wmd somewhere first or suicide bombings were becoming a worldwide phenomena killing thousands a year. How far would we/should we go to save our civilization? Mike
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