foiled terrorist plot?

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I understand your point, and agree to a certain extent: We do need to hit them, and hit them hard.

However, let's take these guys who got caught today. They come from High Wycombe, a small and peaceful town in the south of England (not unlike my own quaint little home town). Let's say they succeeded in blowing up a plane, or a building or whatever. Which city exactly would WE blow up in retaliation? Hopefully not High Wycombe, although this would seem the obvious choice because it is their home city. So do we just pick a city at random? If so, in which country? How would we decide which city deserves to be destroyed?

We are facing a unique enemy. It doesn't have one name, one leader, one uniform, one army, one country. Eye for an eye has its limitations when you can't figure out which eye to strike.

As for the liberal media: I would DESIRE them to speak out if we blow up a couple of hundred thousand innocent men, women, and children in a city that has NO relationship to these English guys we caught today. What would distinguish US from the TERRORISTS then?

Of course I would like to put an end, once and for all, to these terrorists. But I don't think that blowing up cities is the answer. And I certainly don't EVER want to live in a country where the media has no voice, where the government has no accountability, and the nation desires only bloody vengeance regardless of the consequences on innocent human life. I think they tried that in Germany during the middle of the last century. It didn't work out too well for ANYONE.

Fight back? Yes! Blow up a city full of innocent people because they happen to speak the same language as 24 English terrorists, or because they share the same religion, have the same color skin, wear the same style of clothing? No way! For THAT would make ME a terrorist too.

I would hope that this type of action would never be permitted in this country, not because the "liberal media" won't allow it, but because "we the people" won't allow it. We're better than that!

You make a good point although there are many governments out there ran by these Muslim radicals. One recent one is Lebanon which their main political party is a terrorist organization which has been in the news lately. There are so many more countries in the Middle East like this; Iran is a big one we need to take down before they get nuclear capabilities. The country to worry about this the most would be Israel considering one nuke could wipe out the entire country and Iran has been the one supplying Hezbollah with bombs/rockets. Iran would be a good start, or ANY city/country that supports terrorism (most of the Middle East). We need to send them a strong message instead of just trying to prevent this bullshit from happening and gaining political support.

I would rather destroy a city full of people who want to sacrifice themselves for the good of the god (or to kill anyone that goes against their religion), then a city filled with people who just want to live life. No matter which path you take, innocent lives are going to be taken.

The reason we lose so many troops in Iraq is because of the media. If an American soldier opens fire into a crowd of people with guns and kills 10 people, kids and men. The media turns it into that we killed 10 innocent people just trying to go to work or some shit. It is absolutely ridiculous. This is the reason for the ridiculous rules of engagement. Then the media turns it into some big bullshit to discredit the Republican Party (bush) and the soldier who has a family goes to trial for murdering 10 innocent people? I would like to see you walking the streets of Iraq with potential terrorist passing you by with ak47's in their hands and not being able to do a thing until they fire at you. Then you can only fire back at the guy who shoots at you, no one else. Because god knows, if you end up killing a terrorist that has not opened fire yet, then you killed an innocent person.