Zadok, one thing you have to realize is that terrorist orginizations are often supported and harbored by said countries which as far as I'm concerned doesn't absolve them of any guilt. Hell, our own laws on a small scale call things like that an accessory to murder and that can get you a life sentence in prison. You are right this is an act of war and though orchestrated by a terrorist group, they are often an extention of the country that allows them to live there and protects them.
It comes down to the simple rules of war, if someone declares war on you, you declare it back. Which I will note is what President Bush was hinting at when he said there will be no distinction between the terrorists and those who harbor and aid them.
Something everyone should realize, especially the one who are preaching peace and love and bringing them to justice. These groups don't care about our courts, they don't care about our laws, the simple fact is that they hate us and won't stop as long as we are both around. You can't just make a few arrests and throw some guys in jail for life, its like throwing a can of gasoline on a bon fire and gives them one more thing to hate us for that can result in attepts at gaining their comrades freedom to do this kind of thing all oer again.
Its been a proven fact for decades that the only thing many of them understand is force, the don't want to talk and have tea and make chit chat, they want to hurt us in anyway they can. The entire purpose of terrorism is to inflict fear on the civilian populations so they will influence their governments to a direction that the terrorists want. And yes, I do agree that these terrorists and disgraceful villans to the human race should be eradicated, not wildly by lashing out, but with precision by finding and targeting them specifically.
The only problem with that is that there are always more people including the women and children that some think are so innocent who are more then willing to pick up the rifle and continue their so called jihad or political agenda.
As for those who think the US should just sit at home and mind their own business. I'll give you a single example, remember WWII? If the US hadn't gotten involved we'd all be speaking German and goosestepping, some of the people on these boards wouldn't even be alive because they'd be executed in the Nazi views of an inferior race.
How many others would be dead in the middle east if not for allied and U.N. involvement?
You yourself Duke imigrated from an arabian country, can you honestly say that you'd be alive or not running around with an assault rifle if you didn't have the opportunity to move?
The majority of middle eastern countries have been war torn for decades, not only because many of them hate the west, capitalism, and democracy, but because they hate each other. The simple fact is that if there wasn't involvement from the world powers like the UN, US, NATO, and several others that things would be a hell of a lot worse in these places because these groups and countries don't just act as peace keepers by sending in soldiers, but they give medical aid and relief efforts.
How about if Canada just decided to call everyone home and not do anything, how many would die from lack of doctors, medicines, and safe food to eat?
Just as many leaders are saying, this isn't just an attack against the United States, its an attack against our entire way of life. Did the people on the planes deserve to die, or the people in their offices, just because they're government has an outward moving international affairs policy? How about the rescue workers who were just doing their jobs trying to save people who were just trying to do theirs, did they deserve to have a 110 story building dropped on them?
I don't f*cking think so.
No innocent person deserves to have this happen to them, but terrorists don't see the distinction between innocent and instigator. They just see westerner or American or Canadian or Brit and we're all the same to them, thats why these attacks happen without any form of discrimination.
I don't hate arabs, I don't hate muslims and the islamic faith even if I don't agree with its edicts. But I sure as hell hate the people and groups that did this and as far as I'm concerned they have earned every single missle that hits them when they're discovered a thousand fold.
Everyone who's being so nieve and preaching peace, shut up and grow a brain. I fully agree with what your feeling and thinking because I believe in peace, but the simple fact is that peace needs all sides to agree with it and right now that isn't going to happen. The world as much as it absolutely needs peace is in no condition the have peace, it never has been and probably won't be for a very long time unless drastic things happen.
Everyone who's saying to "kill em all" or nuke em till they glow should grow a brain and stop being so f*cking stupid. Uncontrolled annihalation isn't the answer here and until there is more evidence of who did it neither is racism or bigoted hate, you're just like they are if you do that. This situation does call for a severe and hard hitting military solution, but it still has to be controlled and perfomed with precision.
When someone has cancer we cut out the infected areas with a scalple, not a broadsword. And that is what needs to happen here because these terrorists are a cancer on all of humanity regardless of what country they're from, their race or religious beliefs. We put down rabid dogs because they can't be helped or saved, we should be applying the same rules to humans because when it comes down to it we're only intelligent primates.
Justice and vengence are two seperate ideas they are only kept apart by a very very VERY thin line. Sometimes as in this situation, they're walking hand in hand.
I've got alot of friends in the Canadian military. They're all on full alert and they are willing to become involved in an armed conflict if its needed to defend their way of life. Although the Canadian government is highly unlikely to become involved on a direct combat scale like that you can bet our engineers (we don't have jarheads,) are more then ready to throw down if it comes to that.
