Brandon9000 wrote:That's all good stuff, but you can't defend every conceivable target against every conceivable form of attack 24 x 7 for the rest of time. If you defend the airports, they can blow up the movie theaters, or shopping malls, or poison the water. This battle cannot be won purely defensively. Sooner or later you have to go kill the people who are trying to kill you in their own country before they can attack. There is no practical alternative.
Any idea why such wasn't done during in the 50's/60's/70's/80's?
Walter Hinteler wrote:Brandon9000 wrote:That's all good stuff, but you can't defend every conceivable target against every conceivable form of attack 24 x 7 for the rest of time. If you defend the airports, they can blow up the movie theaters, or shopping malls, or poison the water. This battle cannot be won purely defensively. Sooner or later you have to go kill the people who are trying to kill you in their own country before they can attack. There is no practical alternative.
Any idea why such wasn't done during in the 50's/60's/70's/80's?
Because there wasn't a concerted, worldwide effort by a movement with the clearly announced aim of destroying America by terrorist attacks.
This may be a little off target. However, my anger is boundless everytime I remember that the US would not have been in this situation had not the misbegotten #$%^## wimp in the white house not started the war in Iraq.
edgarblythe wrote:Draft beer
not people.
Amen, brother, and merry Christmas to everybody!
