a) An isolated terrorist attack which kills 10,000 people but achieves the “wake up call” that Mr. Scheuer advocates
b) A series of coordinated terrorist attacks at a later date which kill 100,000 people

Whether these are the real alternatives that we, as Americans, confront is open to debate. That Mr. Scheuer would advocate “scenario a” in this VERY hypothetical situation and subsequently be called a traitor is an illustration of how comments taken out of context can be overblown by the thin-skinned and naive.

M. Garrett Roth

–Continued dependence on foreign oil
–Bankrupting social security and Medicare
–No border controls/11 million-plus undocumented aliens
–Failure (since 1991) to make sure all Soviet nuclear devices are under
control
–Failing to win a single war in which America has been involved
–Starting unnecessary wars (Iraq, Somalia, Serbia, etc.) without the
constitution's required declaration of war
–Enormous numbers of billions of dollars in wasted foreign aid ($28
billion in '08) while Americans are unfed
–A depth of debt that is almost unimaginable, much of it held by our foes,
China and Saudi Arabia
–The continuing purchase of weapons systems irrelevant to America's
defense needs
–Sending our soldiers and marines overseas with rules of engagement that
makes them targets not killers
–A relationship with Israel that has involved us in the Israeli-Arab
religious war in which we have no stake

While there are many dangers in and to America, there is no greater danger
to our republic than our bipartisan governing class.

Mike Scheuer

In a message dated 7/3/2009 9:07:20 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,
writes:

nobody (unregistered) wrote, in response to Longstreet:

riiiiigt.. and the first 9/11 happened… why? We have only had two major
terrorist attacks on US soil in my time. One was on a Republicans
administrations “watch” and the other was actually carried out by a Republican.
Right wingers are dangerous. You should be far more concerned about them
than about Obama.

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Did you ask a question about foreign policy or national security? Did you ever answer any of my questions or did you just make up more loony assertions? And seriously, why should I answer the questions of some anonymous crazy posting under Michael Scheuer's name?

They should never be allowed to forget their shame.

Mike Scheuer

In a message dated 7/2/2009 9:32:34 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
writes:

darrelplant wrote, in response to Longstreet:

“You of course have to hit the target, or hit it approximately. Bush did
not have the moral courage to do that…”

He managed to hit the civilian population of two different countries —
which you seem to endorse — without doing anything. I don't think it was his
lack of moral courage that was behind that. More like sheer stupidity.
Probably listening to people like you.

“I wonder, in passing, whether your self-professed “liberal” views and

obvious tender-hearted and genuine concern for “innocents” …”

What make you think I object to killing people? What I don't think is a
good plan is killing people indiscriminately for no particular reason. If the
US had gone into Afghanistan specifically to capture or kill al Qaeda
operatives and leaders after 9/11 (or before) that would have been one thing.
Occupying the whole country eight years after letting the same people
escape? Invading and occupying a country that had nothing to do with it for six
years (and counting)? That just seems like an idiot's plan for the
destruction of the US military and the economy.

Sort of like hoping for an American city to be wiped off the face of the
globe, like you do.

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