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Originally posted by Black Knight: You ask about what has been going on since 1993? Several American Targets have been hit by forces that bin Laden has taken credit for, from African Embassies to a Submarine last summer, and that is to name a few. In the past, we've done retalitory strikes, sending a missle to take out a munitions site or an airstrip. Bush summed that up with his quote, "We are not going to shoot a 2 Million dollar missle into an empty 10 dollar ten." I've tried very hard to stay out of these threads. I respect everyone's opinion, from G'Kar, to Yorick, to even 250 (did I really just say that?). There are no right answers. I'd like to say if we just ignor it, act like it never happened and just try to rebuild, it would be ok. Tell that to the families who are coming to grips that their mother/father/sister/brother/friend/lover will never come home. I would like to think if we just leveled the whole place, came in with tanks and Fighter pilots and not stopped til we had DNA proof that bin Laden was dead, that it would end the problem of terrorism. Tell that to the Soldiers who have to go over there, to never come home. Tell that to the Innocent people of Afganistan. Or the Muslims accross the world who are paying for the sins of another. There is a word for that. Some would call it fear. I call it Racism, which is just as big of sin as Terrorism. Those are the people whom are afraid to leave their homes. For fear of being stopped, questioned, attacked because of what they look like, to never come home. There are no easy answers to the question of Terrorism. There are a lot of hard Questions to answer. Is the Right Choice necessarily the Best Choice? The United States of America is in a Classic Catch 22 Situation - no matter what we do, no one will really be happy. We go to war, people will die, and the children of those we kill overseas, will they praise whatever diety they praise because we killed alleged Terrorists? No. They will be the next generation of American hated. Not because we are Capitalists, or don't look like them or follow the same creed as they do. They will hate us because their Father/Brother/Uncle left one day, to never come home. Is we don't go to War? To not Punish those responsible ... what is to stop them from doing it again. Would it not further encourage that action? There is no right/wrong - good/bad in war. There are a lot of different Patriotic Quotes, Flag waving type things I could say right now to sum this up. But all I want right now is my friend who is in the Air Force, I want him to able to come home. Just my thoughts, and you are free to disagree/agree. All I ask is for respect for me and my thoughts. Thanks, Henry

very well said, covered so many sides
except the ...250 (did I just say that?) part

I will hunt you down...