Replying to a message of Tony Ingenoso to John Cuccia:

 TI> From: "Tony Ingenoso" 

 TI> This may sound rough, but I don't think moral authority counts for
 TI> anything in a genuine gutter fight.  This post 9-11 thing is one we
 TI> need to win, period.  The alternative, widespread terrorism in CONUS
 TI> is flat out unacceptable.

That wasn't *ever* going to happen despite the wild claims of
administration officials and the hype put out by the Ministry of Truth
organs.  There were *seven years* between incident #1 and incident #2 in
this country.

What we will have to deal with now is *worldwide* terrorism and open season
attacks against US citizens - and possibly westerners in general - anywhere
and everywhere on the planet.  Dubya now having provided bin Laden and
similar outfits with thousands of new recruits to do the dirty work.

What we *should* have done was continue exactly what we were doing before
Dubya invaded (conquered, I suppose, since it seems to be about over) Iraq:
 catch the individual members of bin Laden's organization - and others,
such as Hamas and Hezbollah, as necessary - and take care of them
individually as I noted in a post a week or so ago.  'course, this strategy
would take time and it wouldn't provide the administration with a 24x7
propaganda blanket, it wouldn't provide the generals with opportunities to
use their new wunderweapons, it wouldn't kill a lot of people that don't
need to be killed, it wouldn't provide defense profiteers contracts to
replace expended munitions, it wouldn't give the DC regime an excuse to
continue its destruction of the Constitution and it wouldn't give Dubya a
country (or the US taxpayer) for his corporate buddies to plunder under the
guise of rebuilding.  Oh yeah - it wouldn't alienate the rest of the world,
either.

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