[Mr 5 0]

MiracleMax:

Let's get this straight: I don't advocate 'dropping some eggs' on Arab countries just because we can. I don't advocate 'massive, indiscriminate' bombing of any kind. You may rest assured, our President will not do so, no matter how tempting that option may be be at the moment....and believe me, it is.

This is not the time for getting mushy and fretting about what 'other countries may think'.
Other countries did not lose thousands of civilians; men, women and children from a terrorist attack last Tuesday. Other countries did not have two of their largest office buildings - filled with people - destroyed or have their defense department headquarters partially destroyed.

The fact is that other countries totally support us in eradicating the menace that these radical Islam terrorists pose and are hoping we can wipe them out and discourage the countries that support and aid them by making the cost of helping terrorists too high to pay and we will do just that, I'm sure.

America is the most generous nation on earth.
We defeated - than practically rebuilt Europe after WWII. We loaned Europe billions that we later forgave. We are the first to send financial and practical aid to countries that suffer earthquakes, floods or other natural diasters. America sends tens of millons overseas every year in foreign aid, only to be swindled and mocked by many of the countries that we help support. We are the good guys and have been for a very long time, but we don't ask for thanks and we take a ton of abuse, even from our own people who often find fault with us and never see the good that is done, every day by the U.S.A.

The fact is that many other countries envy us, fear us and resent us because of our freedom and our material wealth. Too bad.
We are rich mostly because we are free and not weighted down by centuries of class warfare, or caste, or religious warfare, or tribal warfare or worst of all, by oppressive government run by dictators.
This is part of reason the fanatic Muslims resent us and call us 'The Great Satan'.
They are not kidding, even if we may find this term amusing. They hate us partly for our support of Israel but mostly because we exist. They will happily die if it means harming us. This is our enemy. These groups and the countries that make them possible, that give them cover, resources, money, whatever. These countries are our mortal enemy and have been for some time now. They told us so, but we pretended not to notice.
Well, now maybe we'll be forced to notice as we bury the thousands of innocents who came to work at the World Trade Center Tuesday morning with nothing more than the next coffee break on their mind, but now lie dead under tons of rubble, thanks to the determined Islamic terrorists and the countries that helped make this act possible.

And you worry that we'll look like bullies to the rest of the world?

I urge you to stand back and take a realistic look at this situation. Do you think this was the act of a few crazy arabs who sat behind a sand dune and got a wild idea one day, then 'got lucky' made it work? Hell no, it was a very carefully thought out and well-planned act, requiring a lot of time and money and at least 50 people and a large part of it was done right here in the USA.

The rest of the world can pound sand for all I care. They may resent facing the truth but the fact remains that they need the U.S. a helluva lot more than we need them, and they will not oppose us in this war. They know that we are the only country that can defeat these terrorists as we have the weapons, the manpower, the money and hopefully, the will.

Look like bullies? Throw our weight around?

You've been listening to liberal hogwash too long my friend and I suggest that you forget that touchy-feeley Oprah Winfrey stuff when it comes to dealing with a real and present danger to our country, our people.

We are in a war now. No quarter can be given. This will not be the last building destroyed or the only Americans to be killed in this war. We have to understand that and not get off on some endless 'investigation' and have 'hearings' and 'studies'. Bull.
We need clear and precise intelligence information and then we have to go to the source of the problem and eliminate it, even if it means a lot of innocent people die.
When we were at war with Japan and Germany, we didn't worry about just killing Hitler or the Emperor of Japan, we carpet-bombed cities and destroyed whatever stood in our way and whomever stood in our way. That is how a war is fought.

We know who the bad guys are and have known for years. We know where they are and who supports them. Now, we need to go bring this war to them and all those who take to the streets to cheer dead Americans.

You worry that we might 'look like the bad guys' to other nations? Boo hoo.

Today, we look like fools who had our collective asses kicked by a bunch of fanatic, determined terrorists and if we don't strike back with a resounding and devestating counter-attack, we'll look like a pathetic giant. I don't think that will happen.

Time to get our priorities straight and lose this absurd idea that if we are just seen as nice people, no one will hurt us and everyone will like us. That kind of mushy, feminized thinking makes me puke.

We will do what we have to do and we'll do it 100%. We have other option, now.
If by any chance those other countries you worry about offending don't approve, screw them.