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2006-09-17 India-Pakistan

'Al Qaeda hijacked Indian plane in 1998'

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Posted by Fred 2006-09-17 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 My immediate response to 9-11 was to advocate the immediate carpet bombing of Kandahar. To this day I continue to wonder if such an action might not have been the better message to send Islam. There would have been excellent chances of nailing mullah Omar and possibly bin Laden or some of his top brass.

Of course, I was roundly denounced for this. Back then I was sort of sorry for wanting such a thing. Now, I no longer am. Thank goodness I also predicted the use of fuel air bombs in the Afghanistan campaign and have never felt a single twinge of regret at Taleban having the lungs sucked out of their bodies.

Posted by Zenster 2006-09-17 01:43|| 2006-09-17 01:43|| Front Page Top

#2 My immediate response to 9-11 was to advocate the immediate carpet bombing of ~~Kandahar~~ the ummah.

My suggestion, now.

After 9/11, I figured the Taliban would have to go, and that Saddam would likely need to go. After the anthrax attacks, my big worry was how we would respond to the WMD attack -- our policy was to respond in kind, and that meant someone would be getting nukes.

Of course, instead we assigned the least competent gang of morons we could find in the FBI and got to watch them chase geese and take their tips from political hack, conspiracy-mongering reporters. So we pissed away any resemblance of deterrence we had to WMD attacks.

Now, I don't care what happens to the world's Muslim population. They don't give a rat's ass about their own fate, and whip themselves into a fury every time we don't act like we're their slaves, so fuck 'em. Next natural disaster is Muslim lands shouldn't get a dime from the US, shouldn't even get assistance from our military. Helping them just pisses them off more, so let them rot.

Posted by Rob Crawford">Rob Crawford 2006-09-17 08:41|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/] 2006-09-17 08:41|| Front Page Top

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