Originally posted by BTAirsol
While carpooling with my wife to work this morning listening to the news she commented; "that's it we should just nuke them all". I looked over at her and said; "that's why woman cannot be president, you are to emotional on these matters. It's not the right time yet for nukes".
I dunno. I think that provoking us is actually their main objective. They care little for the casualities or the damage they inflict, because while spectacular, it's still insignificant in the grand scheme of things. They care more about polarizing the world, turning this into a universal battle of Muslim vs. Infidel. They do us another 9/11, we nuke them. Our nukes then turn every moderate and passive Muslim in the world into a paranoid fanatic. The problem multiplies geometrically overnight. The world becomes a bloody couldron.
That's what the fanatic leaders want. With nothing to lose, and no respect for human life, their biggest goal is to generate the most fear, the most hatred and, ultimately, the biggest all-out conflict. They chant Jihad at the drop of a dime, but, in the end, it will be our actions that make the true Jihad a reality. I'd say they came close with 9/11. And with every act of senseless violence, they come closer, because they know that when all else fails, they can count on one thing--an all-out reaction from us.
I hate to repeat myself, but the only way to win this war is to stop buying their stinking fuel. If we last the ten or so years it will take those billionaire cretins to dry up their bank accounts, they won't have enough cash or will to carry this thing any further. Devoid of good-old cash, their lifeblood, they'll be left to rot in their desert cesspit.
Feasible? Who knows. But nothing else seems to work, and this has yet to be tried... Just imagine where the alternative fuel technologies would be if we just used that 200 or so billion for R&D. Instead we bomb Iraq into the stone age--where they'd been living all along.
