Any of you Clancy fans read James W. Huston's Flashpoint??
He makes a pretty credible LEGAL case for the ability of the Congress to
declare war against an individual or an organization and not just a country.
And to kick the socks off anyone or country that stands in our way. And that
was in response to a terrorist attack that looks like a local card game in
comparison to what happened yesterday.
PS don't forget that the Russians tried for 10 years to bring the
Afghanistanis to their knees. We'd need a better approach.
Larry
At this exact moment in time 9/12/01 11:10 AM, "RBHouston@aol.com"
<RBHouston@aol.com> made the profound statement:
> In a message dated 09/12/2001 4:07:14 AM Mountain Daylight Time,
> DLancer7676@cs.com writes:
>
>
>> Now we must
>> calmly and accurately pinpoint the perpetrators of this war-act and then
>> provide them and their safekeepers with a "Hiroshima" of their own. Not
>> nuclear, mind you, but a scorcher that will destroy their organization.
>> And
>> continue until that objective is complete and the world is again a
>> "relatively" safe place.
>>
>> --David C.
>>
>
> Oh hell Dave...let's nuke 'em till they glow...we got lots of oil in Alaska.
>
> Seriously, I truly feel we should use any and all weapons at our disposal to
> stop this crap NOW. The popular press, (anybody read Clancy?) has been
> warning us for years that we were perfect targets for terrorist. Now that we
> should all understand this without question, it time for us to do something
> about it.
>
> If the bast@$ds are in Afganistan, we need to bring Afganistan to it's knees
> and rid their government of anyone that allowed the terrorists safe harbor in
> that country.
>
> Yes we need to punish the terrorist organizations, but we also have to make
> it very, very unhealthy for anyone or anyplace to aid them in any way.
>
> R. Houston
>
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Larry B. Macy, Ph.D.
macy@bbl.med.upenn.edu
System Administrator/Manager
Neuropsychiatry Section
Department of Psychiatry
University of Pennsylvania
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I have great faith in fools - my friends call it self-confidence.
- Edgar Allen Poe
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