09-10-2004, 12:19 PM
(This post was last modified: 09-10-2004, 12:22 PM by Occhidiangela.)
But first, thanks for the spelling correction, I should have looked that up. Sloppy me. :(
From where do you draw your conclusions?
Notwithstanding the obvious question of "who is us," which I will ignore, that comment is complete and utter BS. The amount of terror is up to whoever keeps trying to use it as a tool. Nice work, oh brainwashed one, buying into the lie that terrorism is the fault of the one attacked. You appear to have no idea that you have been, for about the last 15 years, a target of a propaganda campaign. It seems to have worked, on you. (There was another propaganda campaign that started about 20 years ago "trickle down economics" and "tax cuts solve economic problems by themselves" that some people still chant as a mantra.)
How do you draw that conclusion? First off, there is not one, not a full scale war on terror, since far too many nations prefer not to play, and secondly, to call what a few nations are doing a full scale is an overstatement of the naivest kind. Most of the war on terror is not waged with military force, it is waged in the shadows and via non military means.
What war are you talking about? When President Bush declared war on terror, I wondered if he really understood how long term an undertaking that is. He claimed to when he addressed the public.
Look at the Cold War for a modest example.
May as well declare a war on crime, or on . . . uh oh, . . . drugs. To defeat a particular set of terrorists, the Free World will need some innovative ideas to succeed. My own suggestions on how to wage economic warfare against extra national cartels and cells are rife with risk. Hit them in the wallet, slow them down. But enough, there are hundreds of ideas on what might work, few ideas of what does work, other than extermination of the leadership cells: see the Bader Meinhof gang.
See your own opening line
OK, make up your mind, which is it?
Occhi
PS:
I hope you did not mean that, I hope that is a slip of your not native English accidentally coming out. If you accept that the hot air being spouted in our Presidential race can make you think X, Y, or Z, then you admit to being so easy to fool as to be almost useless as a voter. You think for yourself, they will try to sell a lot of folks a lot of soap. :P
Rogue out
From where do you draw your conclusions?
Quote:The amount?. That's up to us.
Notwithstanding the obvious question of "who is us," which I will ignore, that comment is complete and utter BS. The amount of terror is up to whoever keeps trying to use it as a tool. Nice work, oh brainwashed one, buying into the lie that terrorism is the fault of the one attacked. You appear to have no idea that you have been, for about the last 15 years, a target of a propaganda campaign. It seems to have worked, on you. (There was another propaganda campaign that started about 20 years ago "trickle down economics" and "tax cuts solve economic problems by themselves" that some people still chant as a mantra.)
Quote:A full scale war on terrorism is not going to work.
How do you draw that conclusion? First off, there is not one, not a full scale war on terror, since far too many nations prefer not to play, and secondly, to call what a few nations are doing a full scale is an overstatement of the naivest kind. Most of the war on terror is not waged with military force, it is waged in the shadows and via non military means.
Quote:I wonder what the goal of this war is?
What war are you talking about? When President Bush declared war on terror, I wondered if he really understood how long term an undertaking that is. He claimed to when he addressed the public.
Look at the Cold War for a modest example.
May as well declare a war on crime, or on . . . uh oh, . . . drugs. To defeat a particular set of terrorists, the Free World will need some innovative ideas to succeed. My own suggestions on how to wage economic warfare against extra national cartels and cells are rife with risk. Hit them in the wallet, slow them down. But enough, there are hundreds of ideas on what might work, few ideas of what does work, other than extermination of the leadership cells: see the Bader Meinhof gang.
Quote:Obviously the end of terrorism, but when will we see that?)
See your own opening line
Quote:It has always been there and it wil always be
OK, make up your mind, which is it?
Occhi
PS:
Quote:It just is a pity that some presidential candidate makes us think we can.
I hope you did not mean that, I hope that is a slip of your not native English accidentally coming out. If you accept that the hot air being spouted in our Presidential race can make you think X, Y, or Z, then you admit to being so easy to fool as to be almost useless as a voter. You think for yourself, they will try to sell a lot of folks a lot of soap. :P
Rogue out
Cry 'Havoc' and let slip the Men 'O War!
In War, the outcome is never final. --Carl von Clausewitz--
Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum
John 11:35 - consider why.
In Memory of Pete
In War, the outcome is never final. --Carl von Clausewitz--
Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum
John 11:35 - consider why.
In Memory of Pete