Chile John wrote:
1. Enlist world wide support.
2. Give Afganistan 48 hours to hand over bin Laden. And if they don't.........
3. Pummel the hell out of them with conventional weapons, including massive cruise missle, B-52, and B-1 airborne raids. And sustain them.
4. And finally (and I'm going to say it), if they still haven't had enough give strong consideration to the use of tactical nukes, as repugnant as that may be.
John, I could understand your anger, but calm down. This are no solutions for the problems, this will ony create new acts of terrorism.
Some close friends of ours worked there and it is not shure if they survived. I think the chance is minimal.
Ok, I would join you at point # 1 but it is not shure yet if the bastard of bin Laden was responsible for that. There are some 30 fundamental muslim terrorist groups around and all could get enough money from wealthy Arabs. Take some time and think over why this Arabs and bin Laden are so wealthy ???? Right, oil. And which country needs most of the oil in the world ????? Again right, you the US. Or as Lenin said "The capaitalists will sell us the rope which whom we hang them). If the US hand not supported the Taliban during the Soviet war in Afghanistan, bin Laden would have no chance to hide there today. The US were afraid of comunism, but in the mid 80ies it was clear that comunism would not last more that 5-6 years in the UdSSR.
So it was only a problem of time. (Which was solved by 1989)
OK # 2
Get bin Laden out of Afghanistan. The Russians surrendered in Afghansitan, they call it "their Vietnam". It is a rough and mountanous country with millions of hiding places, so a military operation will not be easy and cost a lot of dead.
# 3 You could not bomb every square inch of an country more than two times larger than Texas. This will cause victims on the poplation too. If you do that, you have the same attitude the the WTC bombers.
# 4 If you use nuclear weapons in that region of the world you have to consider that the neigbors like the former UdSSR,India and Pakistan have nuclear weapons too. I think the would not tolerate a nuclear strike so close to their borders.
This could lead to an WW III.
It is more easy than you tink,
1.
Let no Arabs travel into the US, so assasin bombers have no chance to do their work and foreign hired terrorist will not pay with theri lives, becaus they are not so fanatic. They want to eary money for the work.
2. double, triple or quadruple the 5 Mio. $ hold on bin Laden's head. Someone will sell him to you on a silver plate. Remember, one guy was sold for some 30 nickels by a friend who normally followed him blind and loved him. Everyone if corrupt it is only a question of teh price.
The only chance I see beside this is, to figure out wghere the responible persons are, the make an air ride and get them out or liquidate them
(What do you have teh SEALS and Rangers for ????).
This is more effective.
