miditek wrote:I say send them to live at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave., in addition to the Senate and Congressional office buildings - let them sleep under Nancy Pelosi's or Harry Reid's desk!
That would be sort of funny. Or at either the Bush or Cheney family ranches..
After the building was secured, the ranking FSB colonel on the scene removed the C4 detenators from the hands of each of the twenty unconscious female suicide bombers, and then promptly shot each one of them in the head.
As a politician, if you want to allow that sort of stuff you also need to control the press and speech in general, and be very safe that you will be reelected. Neither of those are possible in the US. I tend to think that's a good thing, they were some of the important reasons why the US outlasted the USSR and not the other way around..
AAAAAAAAAA wrote:Anyway...of course Obama is no Hitler. [...] I was hoping more for layoffs but regardless :D. I also like the idea of more transparency and less corporate influence in politics.
I'm just afraid that the voters eventually will elect a Hitler...if not this election, then the next. If not a Democrat, then a Republican. I think America is a great place but we are way too influenced by the media and this mob mentality must stop.
"I knew Hitler... Obama, you're no Hitler!"
Let's see in 4 or 8 years. I'm hoping for the best for Prince Obama, but as they say, the higher you climb, the greater you fall. Maybe he will have some old scandal come up haunting him too.... like everyone else in politics seems to have. And if he doesn't, I'm sure someone will make one up just to distract from the issues that matter.
browneyedgirl wrote:Do some research and send them to the countries whose citizenry or leaders complained the most about Gitmo and let them take care of those criminals. However, Gitmo was draining tax dollars which could be put to better use to help USA citizens themselves.
I think a lot of people in the US were also very vocal about closing it. Maybe you have space in your back yard for a sorta-reformed terrorist tent camp, Palestine style?? :)
Yes, Dems hold the majority in both house&senate, but the right can fight Obama tooth and nail on everything he proposes.....And, greatly delay much needed improvements, and laws. Just for spite? Maybe. The point is, the right is going to make Obama earn his keep as commander-in-chief. And there's not a damn thing he can do about it.
It's a much more precarious thing now than 4 or 8 years ago to be using "obstructionist" tactics, because unemployment and other general hardship in the US middle class are so much more in focus.
The war is far away and everyday economic reality is close.
I have a feeling that someone laid off in the midwest would sacrifice a couple of NYC world trade center towers more if he or she thought it helped...
Carcass wrote:Like the British Foreign Secretary put it some time ago, the label of War on Terrorism is massively misleading.
I agree. Terrorism is not rooted out by military hardware, it's rooted out by police work and good intelligence. 100 Arabic speaking translators can do many magnitudes more damage to Al Qaeda than 100 US Marines.
Also, the western intelligence services (including the FSB) evolved in games against very sophisticated adversaries. In this day and age, for these guys, "spying" on Al Qaeda is probably like stealing candy from a child..
stratohawk wrote:NeonVomit wrote:Shurik wrote:
BTW, Geneva Convention doesn't forbid attacking civilian target in any case. If an enemy surrounds himself with human shield, it's perfectly OK to blow him up with the shield.
So blowing up civilians is essentially okay in your book? Oddly enough, it's what the terrorists do, which
is what makes them terrorists...
There you go... This summarizes it all up.
Actually this story (courtesy of Jörg) to me sums it up.
There was a Borussia Dortmund fan who by mistake ended up in the Schalke section of a soccer game. The Schalke fans outnumbered him, forced him take his shoes off, and to go get them beer whenever they ran out. Every time he came back they had shit in his shoes. He emptied his shoes with a pained look on his face and continued to watch the game, until the Schalke mob made him go get more beer for them and repeated the whole thing.
After the game was over he was interviewed by a TV crew as he exited the stadium. They asked him what he thought the age-old enmity between the two soccer teams. He answered, "Tja, as long as they shit in our shoes and we piss in their beer I don't expect things to change much."
I have an electric fence around the perimeter of my yard(plus other security measures)so, the guys would feel right at home! Also, every morning I would serve them bacon, eggs and homemade biscuits. (oops, I forgot---torture is illegal) 
Thats torture! Literally. 
Now with this outstanding security measure we can dismantle the Department of Defense. 
