The next war on terrorism...Where

alledan

Should it be fought?What should be the next battlefield in the war on terror? The Philippines Somalia Iraq Yemen Other-?

barto

yesssss barto

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the hard stuff we do right away - the impossible takes a little longer

jonk

Either the Phillipines or Iraq. Iraq as there would be a lot of domestic support and we know not only does the nation harbor terrorists, but the leader is one, and the Phillipines as they are a lot more freindly than Iraq and would give us more help.

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"...hit your enemy in the belly, and kick him when he is down, and boil his prisoners in oil- if you take any- and torture his women and children. Then people will keep clear of you..." -Admiral of the Fleet Lord Fisher, speaking at the Hague Peace Conference in 1899.

jdb123

i dont remember much about somalia, i just know we had soldiers killed there and i was 18 years old and wasnt sure why our boys were there in the first place,it didnt seem to me like this story was really covered back in '93 i just remember being upset about the deaths of our heroes just doing their job so my vote is somalia-we owe those bastards.....

22WRF

All of the above

v35

Iraq,Pakistan,SaudiArabia,Somalia,Philipines.It wont happen because of poor allied support. What will likely happen will be a punitive return to Somalia and some heavy operations in the Philipines followed by a major drain on the US Treasury to rebuild the countries. We havent learned how to withdraw.It looks, from the activities in Israel,like we could very well be pulled into a major war with all of the Arab countries if we're not careful.Decolonization of Africa was a Biiiiig mistake.

madminute

Considering who we have as our Secretary of State, and the huge disappointment that he is (yes, Mr.Powell, YOU), I doubt seriously that we'll go much of anywhere else. I can imagine the same full-tilt arguements going on in the White House now which went on at the close of the Gulf War, made by the same guy. FYI, it's mostly Mr. Powell's doing that we stopped short of rolling into Bagdad and cleaning house for good. And I'm positive he's doing the same right now. We won't go after the really big problems anyway, because of political and economic priorities......How can we tell the Saudi's that we're going to blast them if they don't stop sponsoring terror? Or the Egyptians? Syrians? Lebanon? Lybia?......We have to be willing to take on the bunch, stand alone, and damn the liberal media and certain Secretary of State types who think the war is won now and we should just stop and get out as fast as we can......See, elect ME president. I'll be a Commander n Chief! I'd first toast Mogadishu to a light grey crisp (Tomahawk, 500kt plutonium wh) for the whole '93 mess and dare anyone to tell me I'm wrong...Then, I'd send the whole Saudi Royal Fat-* Family packing out of the US and revoke their visas and suspend their diplomatic priveledges. Then I'd freeze all holdings and accounts, park a carrier task force in the Gulf pointed at them and see how long it takes them to blink. This of course while actively pursuing cooperative ventures with the Russians on massive oil resources they don't have the technology to reach and exploiting more close to home sources....I'd let Israel totally off the leash and get that bunch of Islamic poster-children (Palestinians) on the extinct list like should have happened YEARS ago...And this would be only Week One of the new administration......If I'm elected...

songdog

will some one please explain to me why the U.S. spends billions of dollars and soldiers to blow the * out of a country, then the next week they spend a couple more billion to build the country back up. THis happened in all of the coutries that we have fought (in) for the most part. Look at Japan, we decided to take away their military, good idea, but we give them money as well, and now they are the leading technology coutry in the world because they do not need to spend any money to support a military. The next thing you know is that the U.S. will support damned near every little hell hole of a coutry in the world and have to spend all of OUR money to support the bastards.songdog

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Be bold in what you stand for, careful in what you fall for.

pops401

WASHINGTON - China is stabbing the United States and the free world in the back in the war on terrorism. Harry Wu, the dissident who fought the Chinese communist brutality on its home turf, told NewsMax.com in an exclusive interview that "China is a state terrorist country." President Bush, before he visits China on Feb. 21, would be well served if fully informed of the dire warnings of the freedom fighter Wu, and of the startling revelations in a new book that backs those warnings to the hilt. The blockbuster Internet best seller, "Seeds of Fire: China and the Story Behind the Attack on America," written by award-winning former foreign correspondent Gordon Thomas, is making a big splash in international circles. Dr. Wu's charges against China, based on his foundation's studies and his own experiences, are further verified by Thomas' revelation for anyone who may have doubted: When those murderous terrorists slammed into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, killing thousands on American soil, they were cheered on and supported by communist China. Let no one think that China is somehow a real part of the "anti-terrorist coalition," especially when one considers the book's revelations of China's relationship with Osama bin Laden. Ironically, China's largest publishing conglomerate - the Communist Party-controlled Xinhua Publishing Corp. - has bought the Chinese publishing rights to "Seeds of Fire." This same publisher created a furor when it issued books, films and videos glorifying the strikes of Sept. 11 as "a humbling blow against an arrogant nation." China means to destroy the West, according to the leading dissident Wu, the soft-spoken but determined anti-communist who has served years in Chinese prisons. While many of us may have been able to oppose communism from the relative safety of the greatest and most prosperous nation on earth, Wu fought it right up front, behind enemy lines so to speak, and spent years of torture and hard labor for his trouble.Nuclear Attack 'Before 2015' His warning that China means to do great harm to the West cannot be doubted by anyone who reads the never-before-published documents in "Seeds of Fire," including briefing papers from the CIA that show how China may launch an all-out nuclear attack against America "before 2015." One can only speculate whether Chinese willingness to openly publish its own evil deeds is a sign of confidence that it no longer needs to fear retaliation. It's as if they were saying: "This is what we're up to. What are you going to do about it? You're economically hooked to us." That economic interdependence is the No. 1 factor that bothers Wu, whose Washington-based Laogai Research Foundation has been working for 10 years to expose systemic human rights abuses in China's vast, secretive network of forced labor camps. Wu argues that anyone who kids himself by accepting the huge communist nation as part of a Western-organized crusade to combat terrorism is dealing with a contradiction in terms.Relatives Hostage in China Right now about 100,000 Chinese living in the U.S. cannot speak their minds about terrorist persecution behind the Bamboo Curtain for fear of what will happen to their families in China. "Their families become hostages. This is terrorism," Wu told NewsMax.com. "This is state terrorism." Further, it is but one example of the terrorism the rogue state inflicts on victims inside and outside its borders. The Thomas book gets into Chinese intelligence operations in the United States. In the earliest years of the Cold War, congressional committees would haul spies and homegrown Soviet sympathizers before their hearings to demand information on communist intelligence networks in the U.S. Today, revelations of Chinese communist spying in the U.S. get short shrift in the media and bungled official investigations. Wu, twice imprisoned by the Chinese - the second time after he had actually become an American citizen - sees the international industrial commerce dealings with the his former homeland as fulfilling an old Lenin prophecy. The old Bolsheviks had said that when it comes time to hang the capitalists, they will be bidding against each other to decide who will supply the rope.

Judge Dread

The old Bolsheviks had said that when it comes time to hang the capitalists, they will be bidding against each other to decide who will supply the rope. WAS there any real difference in state CAPITALISM and People capitalism? Communist were PUT IN POWER by capitalist in a divide and conquer conpiracy too bad people still think this is "real" ,take off Cuba blockade castro does not last a minute .. ITS the same US aislatory plan keeping him there .....(no tropical "Japan"-like competition) hehehe !

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