Fred, We also have to stop pretending these are isolated forces. ISIS, Al Qaeda, Hamas, the shitfighters in Syria and Libya and Iraq and Afghanistan. Elements in Iran and Yemen and Saudi Arabia and Egypt ... throughout the entire Muslim world...are not so quietly on the sidelines, providing support. These shitfighters are not manufacturing their own weapons.
Too true. And nearly all of them are getting funding from somewhere, and many have training camps courtesty of one of the governments turning a blind eye. ---------------- ...it will be my policy as POTUS to regard any attack on US cities or interests as a failure of the nations from which those attackes are launched and will hold them directly responsible.
I like the sentiment, and I believe that while it would make the leaders of every nation that had been supporting terroism to start containing it, as intended, but it would embolden some terrorists and encourage them to set of WMD in the US for the purpose of getting the US to start bombing the middle east. I'm not disagreeing with it, just pointing out that it might not have the desired effect. ---------------- What are some other alternatives for that speech by POTUS Rand Paul?
I don't know that this is any better, or even as good, but I'd look at these: 1. Take out the money sources - Stop piracy off somalia, - drop herbicide on Afghanistan's poppy fields, - deny any use of the oil fields where those funds get into Nazi-Islamist hands - Partner with Israel to take out the regime in Iran for funding terrorism - Explain to the Saudi's that if any of their citizens let their money go to terrorists, they will experience a violent regime change. - Go to the international court, (then use the military, if need be), to take back for the stockholders all oil properties that have been nationalized around the world 2. Use the military to take out all military and nuclear capabilities of Iran as an example to all of the other mid-East states
3. Leave the UN and kick them out of the US, start a new UN where you can't join if you are a theocracy, or violate basic rights, or attack others, or tolerate terrorism in any way.
4. Terminate all foriegn aid... most of it is just "Aid to Dependent Dictators"
5. Encourage non-Islamic nations to join NATO while at the same time giving a 4 year notice that we are leaving NATO and it will need to find the replacement for our funding and our military might. The hope is that this would spur European nations to build up the arms they need to defend themselves and not expect us to play world policeman. --------------- What does President Paul say? "Ladies and Gentlemen, as I'm speaking to you tonight, our bombers, in conjuntion with fighters from Israel, are targeting the command and control as well as military structures in Iran. The Treasury department has seized accounts of the Iranian government and various Saudi Arabian citizens for supporting terrorism. The day where America sits idly by watching its citizens beheaded by savages supported by Islamist nazis is over.
We have declared war on Al Queda and on all of its sister organzations. Now we are going to wage that war. Let it be understood that any person or any governent that gives any aid to an Islamic fundamentalist will be brought to a harsh and sudden justice." ------------ Without extremely strong military action, like a massive bombing campaign against Iran, no one will have credibility in the eyes of the middle-east where only the harshest exercise of force is respected. And if Iran's leaders are all taken out, and totally disarmed (not just their nuclear facilities, but all military, all navy, all forts, artillery, etc.), then the other nations will immediately fall in line - at least for a while. Nothing else will work, in my opinion. And even that doesn't guarantee success. The Middle-East saw how we demolished the Iraq of Saddam Hussain but they didn't take that as a lesson. ----------- After that, a way must be found to fight fundamentalist Islam as a religion and philosophy and political system. And that can't be done with the military. It has to be discredited in the eyes of all non-extremists to such a strong degree, that they change the Koran and they reform their religion, and then they will police their own - chasing out the clerics and crack-pots who want Sharia and jihad. ----------- These things are certain: - Most of the terrorists will not stop until they are killed - The philosophy of fundamentalist Islam with its death to the West, Sharia for all, enforced world-wide Caliphate will continue to increase in popularity and in effectiveness until something very different is done than anything we are doing now. - When in a conflict where the other side won't compromise or quit, you can't stop till they are dead or in a state of total submission - Failure to follow thru to the total capitulaton is just postponing disaster till later when it will be worse.
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