[geeks] McCain's calling for war...

[geeks at sunhelp.org]

> Hasn't there been enough bloodshed already?  Tens of THOUSANDS of 
> people have just died today.  If we go out and start blasting anybody 
> we will generate MORE ill will and we gear up for MORE terrorist 
> attacks.  I've studied military history and theory a bit and I think 
> this will become the next vietnam. 

Nope.  It's us now.

> There is NO target,

There is.  We just not sure who or where they are located.

> it could be 
> anyone.  They have the freedom to strike without warning and with 
> weapons that are nearly impossible to defend against.  In our own war 
> for independence our forces used tactics that the British had no way 
> to defend against.  The civilian population of a country is not a 
> valid target in a war, we are, quite rightly so, unwilling to engage 
> in the same terrorist acts that others have done to us.  This is a 
> group of criminals, not a military threat.  The scale of their crimes 
> deserve death 10 thousand times over but I do NOT believe a military 
> strike will solve anything.

Depends how you do it.  Obviously, "war" has changed again.