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Originally Posted by Bayer
Guys, the funny thing about the terms Terrorist and Liberator is that they are subjective. One man or woman's terrorist is likely to be another's liberator. Were we liberators in Iraq? By the view of the Iraqi citizens tearing down Hussein's statue in Bagdad, I'd say yes. Has the United States engaged in acts of terrorism? Depends upon who you ask.
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Good point! I'll bet that during the American Revolution more than one British Official called us "Terrorists". I mean we hid behind trees and ambushed recognized military formations and for the most part we had no uniforms. Makes you think.....
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Originally Posted by Ranger_22
The U.S. military isn't made to combat terrorism and their geurilla tactics. Example Vietnam, and for the British, the american revolution. Our military is made to fight other armies. We should come up with some kind of NSA strike force who goes about like regular citizens but looks for every terrorist leader and members and terminates them. Kind of like what they did in the movie Munich.
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Well, I don't think the Military has the intelligence resources to combat terrorism. If we could let the CIA or other agencies infiltrate terrorist organizations and the military act on their intel, we would be so much better.
The problem is, during the Clinton administration, Slick Willy banned the CIA from putting terrorists and criminals on the payroll. Who are you gonna get to infiltrate Al Queda? Bill Cosby? It's taken us a while to even attempt to infiltrate Al Queda. That is why I get so upset with people who talk about how great a president Bill Clinton was. He never killed a single terrorist either! (remember after the bombings of the Emabassies in Africa, he shot cruise missiles at training camps in Somalia and never had a single casuality?)
I better quit, I'm starting to stray into my personal political beliefs and not the facts of the matter.
The only way to combat terrorists is to defeat their logic and turn the masses against them. Notice that Al Queda can't operate freely in Oman, Bahrain or Jordan? That's because these Arab states have high standards of living, well educated people and moderate Muslim populations. If Osama blew up a bomb in Oman, the Omanis would hunt his ass down and kill him using his own tactics! If we could get the Middle east educated and away from believing that any holyman who has read the Quaran is the unreproachable word of God, we could turn things around. If we could get them to question their leaders instead of just blindly following them we could end this. But the terrorists want to keep the people down and uneducated. Teach them to read the Quaran and decide for themselves what is right and what is wrong.
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