[techweenie]

Isabo: "Whether Pershing did it or not I still think it's a good idea."

Making yourself out to be the enemy of a billion people's God isn't a very good way to win hearts and minds. And if you just get respect by killing and desecrating, you have to expect generations of attacks. The result is that the U.S. ultimately would become more like Israel, where you can be searched every time you go into a business, or randomly on the streets -- and still lose hundreds of innocent civilians a year to terrorists. And I think ultimately, that would be unacceptable to most Americans; probably to most Italians, as well.