A threat to vaporize 100 Muslim cities?, page 4

edsinger, you sound like a typical cold war leftover. No wonder you worship Rumsfeld&Co.
There are, sadly, several of such leftovers curretly in high positions of US goverment, who are trying to solve all problems in 21st century by using the cold war tactics.

Main characteristic of cold war was polarisation of the world. Western and eastern block, western and eastern alies. We have destroyed that mentality in 1989 and all the people running things in the last days of cold war were sent into early retirement in 1992, after Gulf War disaster.
SADLY, they were brought back to life in 2000 and now we all have to pay for that. They have polarised, actualy tried to polarise the world again, but it did not quite work well like they hoped it would. The crap "you are either with us or against us" didn't really catch on in the world, the world which is slightly more aware of whats going on then it was 20 years ago.

You cannot use cold war methods to solve conflicts of the 21st century, simply because the situation is UTTERLY different.

MAD was an option when you had clearly defined two countries, goverments of those countries representing clearly defined ideologies with clearly defined intentions and # load of nukes.
MAD was a threat to GOVERMENTS, to those in power, that they will lose everything if they try to nuke the other side.

You are threatening MAD to rogue groups of people, pissed at you for various different reasons, living in various countries hunted by the police and goverments of those countries. They do not care much about civilian population either, they wouldn't be who they are if they cared. Their power and influence is limited, their ideology unclear. Quite a few of them live in the middle of jesus-loving, gun-loving USA and those are the ones who will probably attack you again. Death IS their goal, they are trained to kill themselves and you want to scare them off with threat to kill them? See the absurdity?

In all your greatness, the almighty CIA, FBI, billions of dollars, terrorists still managed to train in the middle of florida and cary out the attacks. Your woods are full of nutters training for the war with goverment, despite all the "greatness" of your police Timothy McWeigh blew up a building full of people.
Now, you are asking that some middle eastern POOR country, with very limited resources, does a BETTER job in catching terrorists then you did. You expect them to catch every single rogue group or there will be consequences.

I mean, WAKE UP. Wake up to the real world.

The current US administration failed miserably in the fight against terror because they were fighting the war which ended long time ago. They were not ready for this one. Pure force is not how you fight a widespread ideology.
This is not a simple war with simple two sides.
We are NOT fighting Islam, there is no nation called like that, with goverment, military and all.
We are fighting something that requires modern NEW methods of war, world-wide alliance, and not just 20 something random countries, it requires goverments who are flexible, who can change quickly to adapt to new order of things (I know, bad choice of words on a conspiracy site

, but you all know what I mean). We do not need some long forgotten ideology, arogant rulers who think they can do it all alone, corrupt presidents... they will fail, and the world will become a much darker place.