This is a conversation I've been waiting to have.

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Smack Them Harder

As bad as it does sound, I am not sure this was the wrong thing to say. I mean if a terrorist explodes a dirty bomb in one of our cities, and we determine that that terrorist came from a particular city, holy or not, would we not consider retaliation in kind?

Seems to me this is simply a smaller version of the mutually assured destruction policy, which kept us out of a hot war (as opposed to the cold one we won) with the Soviet Union all those years.

I don't think it hurts to let your enemy know you will smack him just as hard and even harder if he attacks you.

Posted by TWM on Wednesday, July 20, 2005

I {big surprise here} added my two cents, but I used no sarcasm and no back-handed valley girl diction to make my point. {Hell, even I'm surprised by that.}