Authorities in the US are concerned about the threat of a bomb attack to commemorate the 10th anniversary of 9/11. They have every reason to be worried and recent intelligence reveals that an attack may have been planned for tomorrow.
There is no doubt that Al-Qaeda is a militant Sunni Islamist society and that they're preaching jihad.
Were I the President of the United States, I would have yesterday spoken with the ambassadors from the major Islamic nations, and would have passed one small chilling message. If any of your followers executes an attack on the United States, we will retaliate with all the power of the United States. Medina, the Kaaba, and Q'om will cease to exist. They'll all be smoking craters, unfit for human visitation for dozens of years. We'll return the Dome of the Rock to the Israelis and forbid any Muslim from ever entering Jerusalem. We'll launch every Predator and bomber at our disposal and every mosque we can identify will be destroyed. We'll target Muslims praying in the streets and the desert. We'll hound your people unmercifully. We will continue to rain scunnion on your heads until the Islamic faith is cursed as a pox upon humanity and your own followers rise up and hang you.
But that's just me. President Obama doesn't have the balls to do anything like that.
3 comments:
I don't think the general public does anymore either. A decade of war with out having any real rules of engagement sounds suspiciously like a much maligned Vietnam once again. Except oh yes. Its a democratic administration this time.
I'm all for telling these countries we will not put up with it anymore, but the public has not fought yet. Two deployments over there under my belt and I've yet to see any real fight in most of the Americans yet. I'm not saying there will not be any but it will take a significant loss to the public itself along the lines of what we saw a decade ago to get people riled up that peace will not come with out annihilation of those that wish the same of us.
I may be wrong (wouldn't be the first time) but I think your plan assumes those Islamic country representatives have tight control over all the Islamic whackadoodles that wish us harm. If we nuke a bunch of 'em, the whackadoodles might refrain from attacking us merely out of fear of further retaliation or, more likely, will stay stuck in their mindset and see their own martyred deaths as a positive thing. Yes, a dead martyr is one less enemy but the martyrs seem to never be the guys calling the shots. Multiple mushroom clouds would be mighty satisfying; I don't know if it is an effective policy. OTOH, screw 'em- I won't bitch too much if we do it. Cheers.
I agree with you... Time to man up... too bad we don't HAVE one of those in the White House.
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