Literary Discussions

Eliminating nations is not about punishing individuals or revenge but rather about eliminating the source of an ideological meme which is like a cancer spreading from generation to generation....  If every terrorist had his clan or town destroyed...  well, we know they are suicidal so they do not care about their own life so the death penalty does not deter them, but the destruction of their own clan, their own town, their own city, whether or not that deters them, once you run out of cities, you run out of terrorists...  and then you have an entire nation like Pakistan which harbors bin Laden, and a nation like Afghanistan which produces a huge percentage of the worlds opium,... its not about hate or revenge, it is proactive cauterization to eliminate a problem at its source... it is about actions having consequences...  One U.S. representative http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,162795,00.html Tom Tancredo actually spoke publicly about nuking Mecca.  For every Osama bin Laden that you assassinate there are 100,000 baby Osama's rocking in the cradle of those nations. How many centuries of terrorism can the non-terrorist nations endure? You will not conquer small numbers of terrorists with traditional warfare, conquest, occupation. It will just go underground. Germany conquered France and France surrendered but the resistance just went underground.  Cancer is treated with chemotherapy and radiation therapy which almost kills the patient but it kills the cancer at its source and hopefully the patient recovers.  Now if one representative, Tom Tancredo, was willing to make a public statement then that tells me that 10,000 or 100,000 or 1,000,000  people silently hold the very same thoughts.  If Pakistan does not pay for its crimes then why should it hesitate to perpetrate them generation after generation.  I say destroy the cancer of the world at its source and hope that the world recovers. North Korea, Pakistan, Iran, Afghanistan are like cancers. If you do not destroy them then one day they will surely destroy you and they will feel that they have done a good deed. They will have no bitter taste in their mouths. You cannot easily know the hideout of a terrorist but you can know their nationality. Desperate diseases call for desperate remedies.