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Politics : The Obama - Clinton Disaster -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: GROUND ZERO™ who wrote (11186)	4/12/2009 10:08:32 PM
From: Bilow	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 103300

Hi GZ; Re "a part of terrorism", As far as I can tell, the actions of the Somali pirates are not compatible those of terrorists. I guess I see it as a police action to the extent that anti-piracy has ever been a police problem rather than a military problem. That is, piracy has always been controlled at sea by the military, and prosecuted on land as a violation of law (rather than as prisoners of war). Note that this is not the case for privateers, who operate during wartime as pirates, more or less; they do, traditionally, get PoW status when captured by the military. I think terrorism was a fairly successful way for Bush to scare the American people into getting in line behind him, but the people only fall for tricks like this for a certain length of time. Something Lincoln said about all of the people all of the time and all that. When terrorism is supported by a country, i.e. definitely Afghanistan, and arguably Iraq, then it, like piracy, becomes at least partially a military problem. When terrorism is not state supported, it is a police problem. And I am sure that it is the police (i.e. FBI, CIA, and local police) who primarily keep the US safe from terrorists, not the US military. Obama's scary tale to keep the public in line is global warming. That story is definitely well past its shelf life and I expect him (and his party) to be severely embarrassed about it by 2012 (and maybe 2010). -- Carl