@OmSigDAVID,
OmSigDAVID wrote:The fact that the Moslems have not nuked an American city
is attributable 100% to ONE factor only, to wit: thay have not been ABLE to do it.
That and the part where the overwhelming majority of them have no interest in doing so.
Quote:For sure, if Laden 's boys coud have nuked us,
thay 'd have laffed at stealing planes,
preferring to nuke us. Thay are not in their right minds.
And "thay" don't represent all Muslims. They aren't crazy though, they are enemies. They want to strike their enemies and don't make very good distinctions about exactly who they are, just like you.
Quote:One way to deter their airborne piracy of our planes
is to line the flight deck in pigskin; put it on the steering wheels.
Moslems don 't like pigskin; like vampires and sunlite or crosses.
The fear of pigs is
greatly exaggerated. The 9/11 bombers violated many of the supposed taboos in their religion, like drinking and frequenting strip clubs. Putting pigskin on the flight deck wasn't going to stop these guys, hell they'd just twist it into additional motivation as it would be a generalized insult to Muslims (as well as an insult to the intelligence of the American public).
Quote:More fundamentally, we can do THIS:
tell the Moslems that we know that their philosophy
is based on geografy (Mecca, Medina, etc.).
IF thay nuke us, then we WILL, retaliate in kind
upon those places that matter the most to them, which will
thereafter glow in the dark, during their pilgramages,
and at all other times. W shoud have done that.
We actually have such a policy of overwhelming retribution for nuclear attacks. But we thankfully aren't dumb enough to take it that far and target that stupidly. Our stated policy is that if we are hit by nukes we will respond overwhelmingly toward the nations responsible for the proliferation that made it possible.
This makes a hell of a lot more sense than taking superficial knowledge of a religion and saying we'd nuke cities that would have nothing at all to do with the attacks.
David, your arguments here are in support of tactics that are just plain dumb, ignore that they are insulting to Muslims who have nothing to do with terrorism, they just don't make any strategic sense. They would be completely useless in preventing attacks and that they would insult Muslims en masse would just make it harder to find informants and other cooperation that actually does help fight terrorism.
Mecca is in a country that is fighting terror much more harshly than we are and whose leaders are allied to us very strongly (which is part of the reason Bin Laden's movement is attacking both us and them). Threatening them like that would damage their cooperation (and they cooperate quite extensively with us, we have based on their territory etc) with the US "war on terror".
In short, this is a bad idea for just about every reason, it's based on ignorant stereotypes of a religion, it is collective punishment and immoral, but more than anything else it's just stupid military strategy in the first place. Ignore all the morals and it still makes no sense.