And, just for the record, we've TRIED the other approaches to this issue. The next logical escalation, which we can expect in less than 1 year, based on the current timetable of Osama bin Laden's attacks, is a nuclear weapon on board a ship in a U.S. harbor.Shall we wait for the actinic flash and the blinding fireball before we put an end to this aggression?
JV 1:1 And I say unto thee, thou attack'st my people, and even slay my children.
1:2 So, I shall visit upon thee a plague such that 100 of thy people shall die for every child of mine.
1:3 And I shall persecute thee until the end of thy days, that thee may'st have no rest nor quarter nor peace.
1:4 And I shall slay every man who give thee so much as a crust of bread or a kindly glance.
1:5 And thy Seed shall be forever cleansed from the very World, itself.
1:6 Thy homeland shall be burned, the fields of thy fathers salted, and every stone shall be torn from its neighbor.
(and so on)
-- JV
(What the Hell? I'm not religious, and if *I* don't say it, it might take shakes a week or so to get around to it...)
(the scary thing is, this isn't some knee-jerk reaction, but rather the only way that I see to convince these madmen that there's no margin in terrorism against my people.)
"What rage for fame attends both great and small!
Better be damned than mentioned not at all." --John Wolcot (1738–1819)