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To: Sam who wrote (183767)	3/19/2006 11:54:31 AM
From: Hawkmoon	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

Oh, so this means that the people who did the WTC are more powerful than either the Germans or the Japanese in WWII? lol... Sam.. let me share something with you. On 9/11 I watched the aftermath of the strike upon the Pentagon. I spent that evening preparing to leave the city because I TRULY EXPECTED that there might be a follow up chemical or biological attack. I did not expect this to be a one-time thing, nor does the evidence indicate that Al Qai'da was going to stop their attacks upon the US. And ever since I've been waiting for another attack to succeed in striking the US using some non-conventional weapons. This country has tremendous vulnerabilities that we can not possibly defend against merely by setting up a "Fortress Amerika" and if you think that Al Qai'da is not going to seek to attack us again, then you're simply being Naive. Being a non-state actor, able to find refuge and common cause with Islamo-Fascist elements in various countries (or just intimidate governments into granting the sanctuary), makes Al Qai'da a tremendous threat. The even greater threat is that we fail to confront them where ever we encounter them massing, training, and planning, so that they manage to become even stronger to the point where we're required to commit our young people to even more "Afghanistan" style invasions in order to defeat them before they launch a wave of terrorist attacks upon other Muslim countries, or upon Europe and the US directly. I know many don't agree with the analogy, but what we've done, thus far, in fighting this war against Islamo-Fascism, is to take prophylactic actions to disrupt their plans. It's similar to what SHOULD HAVE BEEN DONE when Imperial Japan invaded Manchura, or Nazi Germany occupied the Rhineland and Czechoslovakia. If we had confronted these nations EARLIER, rather than waiting for a direct attack upon the US, far fewer lives would have been lost than was ultimately necessary. Ideologies are what we war against. Nazism had a blatant goal of conquest. Communism had a blatant goal of global insurgency and conquest. Imperial Japan had a vision of Asian Empire. Islamo-Fascism has a vision of global Jihad that will never end until everyone is Muslim. All of these ideologies, in their fledgling state, are far easier to destroy or neutralize, than they will be after they are permitted to consolidate their gains. So what do you wish to do... Expend blood and treasure in prophylactic actions to disrupt and discredit their ideologies, or wait until we have to mobilize our national resources in an all out struggle for survival 10-20 years from now? Hawk