To: RetiredNow who wrote (215437 ) 1/19/2005 7:19:40 PM From: Road Walker Respond to re: Maybe, I am terrorized. But the more rational part of my mind tells me that when a group of people (who are EXTREMELY popular in their area of the world) have attacked your country, there needs to be consequences. Those consequences have to be in some way a greater response than the attack in the first place. Then other groups or nations that want to attack you will think twice. It's the law of the jungle. Let me put it this way. How many people do you think will walk up to Mike Tyson and punch him in the face? Not many. Why? Because you can expect a beating that will probably put you in the hospital, if not kill you. With radicals and terrorists, you can't really get them to respect you. So the only thing you have left with which to influence them is force. We need to put the world on notice that when the U.S. is attacked, our response will be swift and VERY painful to those who attacked us as well as anyone who was remotely involved. It seems like a radical response, but it's amazing how respectful bully's will become of you, if you help them understand that you are not a pushover. Look, I wish human nature wasn't the way it is. I wish we could spend more money on solving poverty, social security, and medicare, instead of hundreds of billions on the military. I wish it was possible for us to be neutral in the world's affairs, so we could focus on ourselves only. However, with great wealth and great freedom, comes great responsibility. In addition, that leads to inevitable envy and hatred among those groups who don't have what you have. Envy leads to those groups blaming you for all their problems. Some of their grievances may even be true, but many will be false. That is human nature. But at the end of the day, we need continue to put our enemies on notice that attacking the U.S. in any way will result in pain to the attackers many times that which was inflicted on us. real story of the history of the world in the last 3 years. The US has alienated the world, they've become the bully of the world, they've become close to broke, they've divided their own country, they've killed 100,000 Iraqi civilians (mostly women and children) and killed or maimed 14,000 US soldiers. And we've created a new terrorist "breeding ground", and recruiting tool.
