[VelociMorte]

TS, don't get me wrong. I'd die before I'd take an innocent life, or advocate the taking of same. I'm not talking "Death Squads" where anything goes; I'm talking more along the lines of "Frontier Justice".

Sometimes treating terrorism as a crime, and terrorists as criminals just doesn't work. Even now, we are fighting people who were arrested, detained, and released for lack of evidence that would stand up in a court of law. We knew they were guilty when we PUC'ed 'em, but couldn't take the case to trial for various reasons. Some JAG dude half a world away decides the case is weak, and the bad guy gets a ticket home. A month later, he's planting I.E.D.s on the road.

If an Afghan father drags the guy who harbored the bad guys who intentionally burned the school down with his daughters in it, out into the street and puts a bullet in his head, I'm all for it.

If the Paki brother puts a bullet into the nutbag cleric who convinced his sibling to strap on a vest and kill a crowd at the bazaar, I'm all for it.

If the entire populace gets together, organizes, roots out the bad guys, and hangs them from lamp posts, I'm all for it.

If the Saudi Banker who routes funds to a hundred hate-preaching Madrassas, turns into a pink cloud after starting his Mercedes Benz, I'm all for it.

If we don't eliminate the root of the problem, next year we'll be in Indonesia, P.I., or one of the other 'Stans. While I agree totally with you in that we should go after Heads of State that support and harbor terrorists, sending a cruise missile or two to do the job is not too dissimilar to sending a robotic death squad with a nice paint job. I'm all for it, but a group of pissed-off locals would be cheaper.