[lit-ideas] Re: Don't Panic
- From: Eric Yost <eyost1132@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2007 14:38:42 -0500
John: So, is Militant Islam dangerous? Damned straight.
Do terrorists armed with WMD pose a terrifying threat? No
question about it. Do we still need a strong military? Yes.
We also need something like a Marshall Plan for the Middle
East and the help of allies equally committed to a smart,
basically police plus SWAT teams, approach based on good
intelligence, to going after the bad guys.
Eric: John and I are in agreement here, except that I would
take his "police plus SWAT teams approach" and add Predator
Drones, Tomahawk Missiles, Special Ops force insertion, and
pre-emptive strikes at proven WMD facilities. "Police plus
SWAT" is just not strong enough to get the job done.
In addition, I would take the source of John's earlier
pride, namely of "standing eyeball-to-eyeball with the bad
guys and making it perfectly clear that anyone looking to
destroy the U.S.A. or its allies better not hope to survive
the experience," and make it a policy for dealing with
terrorists: "If NYC gets nuked, so does Mecca, Damascus,
Tehran, etc."
John: What we don't need is panicky voices telling us that
to be safe we need to vaporize half the world. That's just
nuts.
Eric: Yes, it is nuts. Of course, I haven't read anyone on
the list who is proposing that.
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