Still I think it would be a good thing if we dropped a guided missile on the House of Saud, Musharraf's palace, Assad's palace, and Khamenie's mosque every time there was an attack on a Western country... ...So let's start smacking the rulers around a bit. They are the ones with power. If we make the rulers quake in their shoes, maybe something will get done. Make the Muslims rulers solve the problems they created.
MM, I copied your post to my buddy Bob, who lives at the East Bay, SFO. He had a few comments, which I quote here:
"The right philosophy, though such an approach needs
to be executed in the right way - pre-warned,
measured,
graduated intensity, uncompromising, etc.
The plan is to get the idea across that there is a
price to be paid for terrorism. Right now the price
is almost zero.
Another important part of the philosophy or response
is to get the idea across that God is perhaps NOT in
sympathy with what they are doing. You do that by
taking away from them some of God's evidence on
Earth, as they see it. For example, making it clear
that Mecca is not automatically off the target list
when especilly aggregious acts of terror are
committed. Smaller religious targets come first, but
they might begin to get the idea early enough.
What this boils down to is to turn the general Muslim
population against the terrorists. That requires
showing them the price they must pay for continuing
the path they are taking. Both the religious leaders
and the secular leaders must be brought to an
understanding of how much they have to lose.
It is unfortunate that the European peoples still
believe you can negotiate with Muslim terrorists.
That is the philosophy of approach that Jewish people
used for centuries in Europe when faced with
oppression. They took the path of accommodation,
followed by negotiation whenever paced with pogroms.
They payed a high price in lives for that approach,
but it saved them from even worse for many centuries.
Then came Hitler, and more attempts at accommodation.
All it got the vast majority was death and
annihilation. The lesson is clear - you can't
negotiate with terrorists of any belief system. Europe
must stiffen its spine, and face reality. This is
a WAR. It will NOT be won by talk.
I cannot but agree with him.
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