BB:

Killing people in order to be perceived as willing to kill is a very, very slippery slope, pal. WHile it might serve our purposes once in a while to be perceived as possibly psycho, engaging in psycho act to prove it is very risky. Nixon and Kissinger tried this during the Paris talks, sending live nuclear bomber wings straight toward Russian airspace on a high-risk chance at cowing the NV into seeking terms of peace under Russian pressure. It worked pathetically badly, you will recall.

I am not unwilling to kill. ANd I don't think the government should be, in any absolute way.   But I am not going to start elective attacks on others in order to prove it. That way madness lies.

If W had spent one tenth of the money he has spent on his Big Bloody War at establishing HumInt networks on the ground, he could have taken ODay, Bookay, and Saddam out with one well-placed cruise missile. His problem is that he is too dumb to know when he doesn't know enough.


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