The right decision at the right time in waging 'war' on terrorism?

- This is the central RWing talking point. They say that Clinton/Gore should have bombed the shit out of some country or some thing after the first bombing of the WTC. They insist that would have taught terrorists a 'lesson' and prevented further terrorism. Yet...Bush* officials tell us that it's only a matter of time before terrorists strike again on American soil. Huh?

- Common sense would dictate that this means war as an approach to terrorism isn't working...and can't work. The best we can hope for is to find those responsible for terrorism and bring them to justice. Meanwhile...we should be trying to address the cause of terrorism or it will never end.

- Bush's* 'kill 'em all and let God sort 'em out' war on terrorism is destined for failure because there is no end goal for negotiations or peace. The idea is to continue to kill terrorists (or those who get in the way) until they're all dead. There is no consideration for the idea that Bush's* indiscriminate killing is breeding more terrorists and making a war on terrorism look even more futile.

- There is simply no way to win a war on terrorism. There CAN be peace with the admission that the US is not blameless and actually part of the problem with a foreign policy of empire and military aggression. Democrats who support this 'war' should keep in mind that the Bush* government has no intention of actually 'winning'. Their plan is war for the sake of war: to use war for political advantage, destroy the infrastructure of our nation and rebuild it in their image.

paybacks is a mother f*****.

- There IS no 'war on terrorism'. What we have is a series of unilateral decisions by the Bush* government to invade certain countries using 9-11 as an excuse. It doesn't matter that the countries Bush* attacked had nothing to do with 9-11...or at least that's the rationale used by the Right and many on the Left.

- If American RWing terrorists attacked another country...would they have a 'right' to bomb us because the terrorists may have been born or lived here? This is the type of illogic Americans are being forced to support in the name of empire.

Part of their strategy is to maintain a continuous war and keep everyones attention focused on it.

If these people have even read Orwell's 1984 they didn't see it as a warning but as a source of ideas.