Monday, November 29, 2004
I must admit, whenever I see the face of Osama's right-hand man gracing the ten o'clock news with yet another threat agains the U.S., I react with a sudden urge to punch in the television, hunt the guy down, and take an uzi to his deranged ass. But I'm
not convinced that any benevolent God would condone these actions. A
just God, maybe, but can one be both merciful and just?
That aside, I wonder how stealthy we're being in the Mid-East. The whole strategy that caught
us off-guard in the first place was the stealthiness of the attacks, the way terrorists hid amongst us and used our own resources against us--no obvious tanks or missiles or Blackhawk choppers or uniformed soldiers. . .and it makes me wonder. Is a
military strategy really the kind of tactic we need?
I really have no idea how many spies we have implanted in their terrorist networks or how well our intelligence is using such potential spy information to bring down the organization from the
inside (and I don't want to know, because that would defeat the purpose of employing spies, wouldn't it?). Maybe this whole "bomb-em-all (in the wrong country)" tactic is just a ruse, a distraction from the real inside infection and takedown of the Al Qaeda terrorist network. . .?
