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Old 09-14-2001, 01:22 PM
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Default Re: Nuclear versus conventional means



It scares me that so many Americans seem to be jumping on the nuclear bandwagon. Talk about trying to kill a bug with a sledgehammer! These people are really nothing more than a fairly small group of common fanatics and criminals. This is no nation of people. Let's not give them more validation than they deserve. These fanatics want this to escalate into World War and to alter the American way of life. If that happens they have scored a resounding victory. George Bush has a tremendous opportunity here to marshall support from across the globe (even from quasi-enemies) and isolate some of these groups and do far more damage to them in the long run than any nuclear strike. Keep in mind that terrorist cells are spread across the globe, even in the US and other Western countries. The killing of civilians by the US will only serve to escalate the level of violence in perpetuity. This is our chance to further isolate these terrorist fanatics using an unprecedented level of global cooperation. We don't need to deliberately kill innocent civilians in the process. We don't need to stoop to their level. America and NATO in concert with non-NATO countries have the manpower, intelligence, and technology to exterminate the culprits, as well as several other like-minded groups along the way. If you must have revenge, consider that this kind of operation will be far more terrifying to them than any nuclear strike.
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