War.... (Historical: 9/11 discussion thread)

[Baron Munchausen]

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Originally posted by Puke:
well, the UN likes to try, and it looks like NATO is willing to help, but i get your point. i meant to suggenst that one guy is a vigilantie, a group or community used to be called a lynch mob. when they had a sherrif at the head, instead of just a drunk farmer, they got to be called a 'possie.' Maybe they will get to be called a task force or something, when its governments getting together, but i think the concept is basically the same.

again, not that im against it. I think a war on terrorism would be great, as long as it does not go the way of ronnie ray-gun's war on terrorism. i just find the parallel interesting.

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Well, if I can ever punch through the knee-jerk assumptions that any "action" has to be military retribution we might discuss a "New World Order" that really isolates nations that harbor terrorists and shares information in a coordinated way that gets the terrorists caught. I see that some of the Europeans, like Askan and Andre Lescano, understand the real problem with macho revenge actions. Dropping millions of tons of bombs on Afghanistan and other remote havens for terrorists will only kill 5 or 10 percent of the terrorists, but will definitely radicalize a new generation of suicide bombers. What we need is a real international system that can detect the preparations that go into something as large as the WTC attack. Even in the spotty news we're getting now you can see that there was a lot of preparation that would have given warning if someone was paying attention.