³ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄij +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ ÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛ²²²²²±±±±±°°°ð|O|u|t|b|r|e|a|k|ð°°°±±±±±²²²²²ÛÛÛÛÛÛÛ +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ Issue #6 - Page 8 of 16 ³ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄij --=Brief Thoughts on Terror in the U.S.=-- -By TheEnigma- With the growing popularity of suicide bombings and other terrorist activities I decided I would let you know what some of my thoughts are on the subject. The recent attacks on American civilians curtailed drastically if not completely when we launched a military attack against the government sponsor of that terrorism. I now feel the real shit is yet to come (not that the events of 9/11 were not real). Americans were targeted by Arabic Terrorists back in the seventies and eighties and we lived through it. Now it is 2002 and we must once again accept the fact that we are the primary targets of homicide bombers, hijacked aircraft, and god knows what else. Israel has been dealing with this for years, and recently they have not done a thing to really stop terrorism. They go blasting up Palestinian villages, which is great for Sharon's ratings because it makes it appear that he's doing something. But the reports say that foreign governments are sending the supplies in to the terrorists, yet there are no reprisals against the foreign governments. Also, reportedly wealthy Arabs are offering financial rewards to suicide bombers'surviving family members. Uh...can anyone say "special ops teams should eliminate said wealthy Arabs"? Special ops teams don't play well on the evening news. Remember that our guys were in Afghanistan on day three, but it wasn't reported for months. I think that, should further suicide attacks or any other form of terrorism visit the United States, we would visit upon supporters of suicide bombers the principle that "payback is a bitch". As far as defending against suicide bombers, there's an old military axiom: "he who defends everything defends nothing". Do you think that, if detecting suicide bombers was a simple matter of getting some dogs, maybe Israel would have thought of that by now? Isn't "Qaeda" Arabic for "Gore"? Scary, huh?