>Len,
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>Spouting the crap that you've been posting the last couple days does nothing other than to infuriate many people. Are you going to just laugh it off when you must go thru all kinds of security to go to the airport, to go to a large concert or sporting event, etc. because our lifestyles have changed because of these people?
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>These people only have one mission in life. Destroy the free world! Obviously, from events over the last several years, there is a significantly sized group that is willing to give up their lives to destroy others who don't share their beliefs.
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>They must perish. Each and every last one of them. To say anything else is an affront to those who lost loved ones this week.
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>At least morons, such as yourself, are not in charge of yours or our government. Blair has offered total support to the effort to destroy them. He at least sees that the threat is not only to America, but to the UK as well.
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Actually Perry, Tony Blair has not offered "total" support but more accurately "conditional and cautious" support, a stance taken by many other NATO countries.

You see, the problem we're dealing with is much greater than giving bin Laden et al their just desserts. It relates to the prospect of a large military effort serving to de-stabilize the region, thus creating the epic "holy war" that bin Laden and his accomplices are trying to promote. Do we really want to play into his hand and start WWIII?

Even an invasion of Afghanistan would be extremely difficult to pull off, much less all the middle eastern countries that have harbored terrorists. Let's not forget what happened when the soviets sent 100,000 troops in there 2 decades ago - it was their Vietnam.

If we are to be succesful winning this war (and I honestly believe we will) it will have to be through gaining the approval of the international community as well as all of the arab states (possibly excluding Afghanistan if diplomacy fails). Only then can we go after the perpetrators without getting all the other radicals/extremists/religious zealots that aren't terrorists involved in an ugly, drawn-out and impossible to win quagmire.

Intelligence and international collaboration is the key. Without it we are doomed to repeat the failures of our predecessors.

-JT