I'm 31 and I don't. I don't see a clear enemy that we can paint into a corner and bomb the crap out of. We're talking islamic fanatics here. They're all over the world, aren't they?
>If people were unwilling to fight before, we would all be either under a Japanese or German dictatorship.
Perhaps, but the situation is not at ALL comparable. Moslem fanatics don't exist under a specific government that we can objectify and fight.
Ok so, we capture/kill Bin Laden and as much of his support as possible, then what? He gets turned into a martyr, and fringe people get moved to become fanatical, and the ones that are already goners get moved to uphold the cause even more strongly.
So it gets followed by a continued escalation on each end, except that our escalation would be something like bombing more of their infrastructure, and theirs would be like nuking LA or dropping anthrax all over Chicago.
I don't know what the solution is but I'm right there with Cal wanting to know what a war would/will achieve. I get the
creepiest feeling that sometime in the next year or two we could be asking ourselves, "What could we have done differently?" and we'd be talking about the decisions that are being made right now.
No, I don't have alternate suggestions on what should be done, except maybe for the naïve wish that televised governmental dialogues would be possible between the parties involved.
Right. :rolleyes:
