in a word - "PRE-EMPTIVE!"

[HARDCORE]

Can we afford, or are we willing, to continue allowing radical, fanatical bastards to kill Americans in a fashion similar to 9/11/01? There is little question that they (terrorists) will
continue their rampage if not check-mated!!

So what is our recourse (Maybe Our Only Recourse) - Diplomacy, Threats, or a surgical military response perhaps? ?We have tried all of the above and they work not!

If we know for a fact, and I believe that we do, who is orchestrating these dastardly atrocities, then by all means, decapitate the snakes in their lairs! This is a problem that ?Will Not? merely go away on it?s own!!

These people are (in my opinion) - ?NEO BARBARY PIRATES?, and what we need now is yet another Steven Decatur! One does not merely slap a cobra across the snout and expect it to slither away and never return, venom intact. It will, just like terrorism, return with hatred and a vengeance! And should this enemy resort to Chemical, biological or nuclear agents, then by all means, totally devastate this foe with all means at hand! One does not offer the olive branch to a rabid dog! ?As ye sow, so shall ye reap!? The World Trade Center, and the Pentagon are not situated in Paris, Moscow or Berlin, and as such, we need not seek their (or the UN?s) permission to protect our people or our assets!

?Be a friend to the world, but not it?s target, obedient lackey, nor it?s free lunch!? (opinion)

VERITAS