Originally posted by Wotan:
SW
I guess you missed this part of my original post.
Sure did, I thought you were a tree huggin' hippy.
Originally posted by Wotan:
Given that how do we deal with it?
Do you think killing Osama bin laden will stop terrorism?
I don't know how to deal with it, I think the ultimate goal is to find out what cells exist- how many cells there are, who's in the cells, where they are located, what they plan on striking and generally finding out where they will move before they move there, and where they will move in the next year, etc. In other words, to better combat terrorism- we have to think as a terrorist and figure out what their motives are, etc.
I do not believe that killing or capturing Bin Laden will do anything. As a matter of fact, I believe getting just him will further antagonize the other cells and perhaps they will see that as a better reason to crush the infidels in the west.
I believe, and I hope I am right, based on what I have heard that we are not only targetting Bin Laden- just that he is the focal point of the initial operations. Perhaps capture him and as many as his cronies as we can in the first wave (what kind of wave? I have no idea...) and get information out of them as to who, when, where, how and why of the other cells.
Originally posted by Wotan:
Most just want revenge which is normal. Is calling for a nuclear response the right thing to do. Is occuping Afghanistan the right thing to do.
Nuclear response is not even close to right or even acceptable by anyone in power. What I mean is, it's a last ditch weapon. It has been used twice (Fat Man and Little Boy) before and it's the only times the need to use it was clearly brought forth. Of course, the reasons behind that one were to avoid further loss of American and Allieds lives if they had to actually come ashore on Japan.
Will it be the same with this? Well, we still don't have a clearly defined enemy as far as territory goes. We can't hap-hazardly drop nukes and assume we got the bad guys amongst the millions of innocent or good guys that are no longer living.
Do I believe occupying Afghanistan is the answer? Depends, I think it's all going to depend on where the chips fall. What I mean by that is that it depends who takes sides. If Afghanistan openly harbors terrorists and threatens the US and any of her Allies if they come near them, then it's clear that Afghanistan is against us and is therefore an enemy. This gives us a clear objective in terms of territory of operations.
I think it's all up in the air right now, Bin Laden is the prime suspect for Tuesday- but if he's not the one who masterminded it, then he might be put on the back burner until we get the guy responsible for Tuesday and all of his cohorts. This is going to require systematically finding and destroying cells, and their leaders in various nations.
Simply put, it will not be simple at all. This will be one of the most complex "wars" ever fought, our enemy has no defined territory, our enemy has no defined face, and worst of all- we might not even see our enemies until after they've discharged their weapons(meaning suicide bombings, etc).
Originally posted by Wotan:
I make no statement of belief or direction or action that we should take I'm only asking questions.
I understand now, I apologize for my previous post. I hope this is what you were looking for.
-SW
