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To: michael97123 who wrote (209)	5/15/2007 3:53:28 PM
From: one_less	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4152

"But i am not talking here about using this assysmetric advantage we have just to use it but to use it as a form of deterrence. Remember that during the cold war we would have obliterated russia if they attacked us with nukes and visa versa. Should we not have used such deterrence?" I added some text to that last post during my fifteen minute edit period so if you get a chance, check to see if your question is already answered. The key word above is 'deterrence'. The cold war enemies were one homogenous force against another with national boundaries identifying each. We would not have deterred Russia by car bombing the Russian soccer team in Peru. The dead people under a Meccan Nuke would likely represent every subculture on the planet and you could potentially miss every terrorist alive. You simply declare your self an enemy to all subcultures of the world where Muslims may have come from to do a pilgrimage. Approximately 3 million at a time from every country of the world visit Mecca. That would be a victory for terrorists because it would push us into a corner of being an aggressive enemy to all, and everyone who cared about them, which would touch every human being but the criminally insane. Tell me how that works to deter anyone but the innocent dead people under the nuke? "So using chris' scenario of 20 simulsneous mall attacks killing mostly 400 women and children how do you respond both to bring criminals to justice and to deter this behaviour in the future. At some point american will support countering these actions---assuming this happens ever couple of weeks but use of extreme force." Well that is a scary thought but you start with the perps and if you are very sure that they were trained or bred in camps someplace and you can hold that evidence up for justification ... bomb the camps. If you have irrefutable evidence that it was state sponsored, bomb the sponsor like Reagan did. But you are using scenario three here so your action must be very clean and justified by your own ethics. What happens to the teacher who cusses out a kid, rapes him, and beats him to teach him a lesson? duh... its over and you lose big time.