[snowman]

Terrorist tactics require the use of preemptive war. Why? Because no nation is directly involved. Also if we cannot pursue individual terrorists to any part of the world, and the nations that host them refuse to help us track them down, we are left with no good choices. In the past this could be ignored as the consequences were not to horrible, but with nukes and other WMDs things are different. We CANNOT EVER be wrong. To do so might loose, say NYC or LA. You think Bush is taking heat, just think what any pres would be up against if he were to lose NYC!

As a practical matter we cannot pursue every terrorist, even if we wanted to. What to do? FORCE countries allowing terrorists to thrive to take care of the problem. If they do not, leadership change is in order, theirs, not ours. This approach has already shown that it works, take Libya for example.

I will predict that if any terrorist ever sets off a nuke, anywhere in the world, for any reason, that within 2 years every small country in the world will be a colony of one of the major nations. There will be leadership changes on an unprecedented scale. There will be NO liberal stance, just one, right one.

For those who think the west is soft, remember, people are people, and people do not change. Then remember Dresden, Hiroshma, and Nagasaki. Think it can't happen again, then your are DEAD wrong. Liberals might argue otherwise, but do YOU really want to BET on it???

Place your bets here. West wins 100:1 odds.