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pretty down to earth explanation of failure to Win wars started.....
posted by
benzinha
on June 8, 2008 at 3:27 PM
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Didn't those nuclear instructions read, "Bend over and Kiss your ass
good-bye?" if I recall them correctly.
posted by
benzinha
on June 8, 2008 at 2:05 AM
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BC-A, I am daily remembering the line from Thin Lizzie's "Boys are Back"
"If the boys want to fight, you better let 'em"...or else.
Legal prosecution of terrorists rarely works because, well, they're "terrorists"...no one wants to testify, they are good at isolating themselves and will kill anyone they have to who is in their way. They are not stupid in most cases, they know how to ride the law like a donkey. Successful indictments are few. They are fighting a type of fight we find repugnant (close-up, targeting all sorts of people, shielded by true or feigned non-combatants) because that makes it one they can win.
We had our own internal terrorist period also, called the Roaring Twenties, when Al Capone and other organized mobsters virtually ran some of our most major cities and influenced their states thereby. Their stranglehold was broken by FEDERAL agencies (ATF, FBI, IRS) turning informers, infiltration, a frequent disregard for civil rights and collateral damage, and a justice system with a much lower threshold of proof for conviction...none of which will help us now.
My sentiments are with you, but pragmatics dictate stronger measures, dammitall; a war in Iraq was not credibly about terorism, however, but about oil.
PS: What are we then to do about the ultimate terrorism: nuclear proliferation?
posted by
majroj
on June 6, 2008 at 12:33 PM
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While supporting democracy and America's two party system ...
I think that terrorism should be handled criminally. The United States should avoid the 2000 Republican platform position on foreign policy. Peace
posted by
BC-A
on June 6, 2008 at 8:10 AM
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