>My question is: which of the nations mentioned on that page would you have smashed to prevent 9-11?
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>John, I'd like you to read this:
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>http://www.kentimmerman.com/2003_12_22-beirut.htm
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>Our unwillingness to punish Iran for holding Americans hostage for over a year....our unwillingness to severely punish Iran and Syria for their role in the 1983 attack that killed 240+ U.S. Marines...has, in no small way, contributed to the situation our country faces today.
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>We have the means to utterly annihilate the governments that have initiated these terrorist actions. Without these thugocracies, terrorists have a much more difficult time operating.


I still think the best course of action is a proclamation to the world. "You kill an American, you have 24 hours to vacate whatever area it was where the American was killed and then we send in our b-2's and flatten it. We do it every time they kill an American, eventually it would stop or there'd be nothing left of the country in question except rubble.

Reagan understood this concept, unfortunately, outside of GWB not other president since the 80's has had the cojones to do anything about it.