Theoretical: How can the US harm Al Queda?

Analyzing the first wave of attacks, I don't think Al Queda has been harmed. They haven't lost anything of value to them. They actually gained. Namely the symphathies of some people and a fresh new batch of recruits.

So how can Al Queda be harmed? Something that would piss them off. Something that would cause them to regret starting this. Something they would care about losing. Any ideas?



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[Griffin 1]

What are you using to analyze these attacks? How do you arrive at your conclusion?

[Higher Authority]

Loss of a whole region if necessary. Of course, we might have to put up with a higher incidence of cancer from the extra alpha exposure. If there was no one left to fight or too few to cause any trouble, I think that would resolve the problem quite nicely.
We have asked Afghanistan Government to help us retrieve the individuals responsible for this. They have made it clear that they will do no such thing. "I suspect that the Afghanistan government also funded these activities." I believe that we are trying to resolve this problem without resulting to genocide.
To Voice of reason:
It is apparent that you don't have any childern. These people are not going to go away. If it ment doing atrocious things to safeguard my family. Then I am all for It.

On 2001-10-09 23:46, Griffin wrote:
What are you using to analyze these attacks? How do you arrive at your conclusion?

I used MS Bombanalyzer 2000 running on my new Dell 1.3GHZ P4.

Needo. If that's ultimately the only thing that'll harm Al Queda, then it'll might eventually happen. Is that the only thing?

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Al Queda doesn't exist in a vacuum. It depends on states for money, support, protection, etc. Destroy the government of those supporting states (or scare the cr*p out of them so they cease their support), and al Queda becomes much less powerful. The Taliban will be the first Middle East government to fall, maybe not the last.

[Mr. Grim]

how about this? Closed borders everywhere.

All Middle Easterners in europe and America are shipped back to their home country.

This may fester a unified army in the Middle East which will want war but then we can justify bombing the whole region.

Other problem oil ... more difficult to solve.

On the other hand, now that we have destroyed their primitive anti-aircraft system, the papers are saying we can send in helicopters to hunt down the terrorists. Sounds like a good plan to me.

[Intents]

If we do not find a way to have peoples of the world accept religious tolerance, there is no solution. Having somebody use Old Testament quotes to support Israeli aggressions is in the same vein as somebody quoting the Q'uran as motivation to stop infidels.

[Actuary321]

By bringing devistating destruction on the government of Afghanistan (and probably others, read Iraq), and then hunting down the terrorists and killing them. But it will require a certain degree of precision to show that we are very focused and can target fairly precisely.

By hunting them down and killing them, I would suggest ground forces to find them and target heavy air bombardment.

[Higher Authority]

To voice of reason:
I do hope that it won't come to my most pesimistic views.
food for thought, How will we deal with our domestic terrorist?

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