It isn't popular, like the constant apologies Bams issues, but popularity isn't the name of the game.
ISLAMABAD: Hundreds of activists took to the streets on Friday as the protests over desecration of Holy Quran at the Nato military base in Afghanistan spread to Malaysia, Indonesia and India.
Holding banners inscribed with several anti-US slogans including ‘Damn You US Army’, and ‘Quran Our Soul, You Burnt Our Soul’, protesters gathered at public places to express their anger at the desecration of Holy Quran at the Bagram military base.
Up to 300 people blocked the GT Road in Peshawar, stomped on and set fire to the US flag, and kicked the dummy representing America and beat it with sticks while it was burning.
A lot of folks would like to kick the dummy representing America, so there's a point of agreement. Unfortunately, the area of disagreement is wide, and the Islamos resort to violence at every turn. They will not stop until they are dead, and it is now time to make them so.
The USA should deploy neutron bombs to eliminate the continued threat. We have the capability, and the time has come to use it.
A neutron strike simply eliminates the problem, while preserving infrastructure for peaceful purposes. Of course, some would object to the approach; Russia and China would find it expedient to express their outrage, though both have had their own issues with Islamos, and so both would privately support the eradication of an infection.
In the previous world wars, civilian centers were routinely bombed by both sides. In this world war, nothing has changed in that regard: neutron bombs will kill Muslim civilians along with the nutjobs that send out suicide bombers to kill us. That's unfortunate, but it is a situation that they have selected.
It's a war that they have imposed, and one that could be quickly ended.
You be hard-core, Max. I do have som sympathy for that argument.
Posted by: Sam L. | February 26, 2012 at 07:30 AM
Mecca and Medina, targets 1A and 1B.
Posted by: Rob | February 26, 2012 at 11:17 AM
Let's drop the big one, see what happens.
They don't like us any way.
No matter what we say.
Let's drop the big one, pulverize 'em.
The Randy Newman approach.
Posted by: Bobkat | February 26, 2012 at 01:02 PM
Mecca's a good start; sure to get 'em riled up and out in the streets hollering "death to" - making them easy targets for the next drop.
I'm just tired of their crap. There's no justification for sending our folks over to those places to get blown up or their heads sawn off - we have the capability to neutralize the peace-loving poppy growers without risk to any of our people, and it's past time to deploy that capability.
Turning the place to glass is an option, but it's too destructive. Spare the infrastructure; just get rid of the nutballs.
In WWII, we carpet-bombed Dresden and a host of other targets, with substantial civilian casualties and incredible infrastructure demolition. We can spare the infrastructure today, and while civilians would die, it's time to face the facts: their "culture" breeds wholesale violence.
Not one of the 911 passengers was a combatant. Nobody in the twin towers was a combatant. Daniel Pearl was not a combatant. You can't "negotiate" with them, and you can't stop them by conventional means.
The only way to stop them is to eradicate them, and the best way to accomplish that is with neutron bombs.
Posted by: Max | February 26, 2012 at 04:09 PM
I don't think there's a lot of infrastructure to worry about - at least,, not in Afghanistan or Pakistan.
I do believe you're right about not being able to stop them except with "extreme prejudice".
Posted by: ZZMike | February 27, 2012 at 04:09 PM
No point in breaking what little is there. I favor neutron bombs because they cause little physical damage while effectively sterilizing the area.
Posted by: Max | February 27, 2012 at 08:44 PM