I believe the people that drive and control the dysfunctional cats that are the “Left/Greens” actually work for this solution. Although I suspect they pray daily for a comet strike or some other mass extinction event.

I see the effects of the mental gymnastics of these types all around the world. But for the life of me I can’t figure out HOW they get to that place.

Per 26. John Lynch:, isn’t that called the “law of unintended consequences”?

Good post and thread, W, and good comments from whiskey, too.

PS: Got my own comment back to edit, so its working right now.

Which raises one more question: What is the cost of eternal vigilance? Can America – or any other nation – really keep up their guard forever, or is it just a matter of time before “vigilance fatigue” finally sets in and people start deciding it’s just not worth that cost anymore?

Mark, #9: Obama and his domestic policies put us in a position wherein we have neither the current capacity or the reserves to pursue an independent course. We will find ourselves in the position of just being one more nation among many.

In a thoroughly globalized and tightly interconnected global economic and cultural environment, no less. The one-worlders may indeed get their wish, though not quite in the way they had in mind (i.e. an effectively stateless world, rather than a one-world state).

Geoffrey Britain, #16: What must be done about terrorism cannot be done because sufficient political will to do so… doesn’t exist. Just as in the 30’s, liberal pacifism, denial and calls for appeasement prevent any decisive action against the infrastructure of terrorism.

Once nuclear terrorist attacks start occurring, then finally shall the US gain the unity that presently escapes us.

whiskey, #33: INEVITABLY the Western Peoples will regard ALL Muslims as a threat, a mortal threat, to their lives and one that can only be dealt with by eradication.

I wouldn’t stake Western civilization on either of these things happening even after an Islamic nuclear attack… at least, not if I had any choice but to do so.

Then there’s my “Fourth Conjecture” that I’ve brought up here a few times before, namely that after such an attack America and the West may indeed muster up the will to wipe out the ummah – but only just long enough to do the deed, after which the usual self-hatred not only returns but is amped up by an order or two of magnitude, once the enormity of what we’ve done sinks in. Once that happens, all bets on the West’s continued survival in any recognizable form are off.

Brrrr. Be careful what you wish for. I can think of a lot of ways a National Manhunting Agency can go wrong, starting with who gets to define “enemies of the state”.

Better, as Kinuachdrach alludes to above, is Congress issuing Letters of Marque against terrorists. That idea has been floated some during the last few years, and I think it deserves a look. It is provided for in the Constitution, and would essentially empower privateers to go after terrorists. Decentralized groups of private citizens pursuing decentralized groups of terrorists. It’s fighting fire with fire.

Alas, I suspect that the reason the government isn’t interested is that it doesn’t cause more power to accrue to government.

…. UN Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial Executions Philip Alston ….

Emphasis mine. Translates to “UN Czar of Assassinations”. As for the international law bit, I don’t think there is a provision in the Constitution certifying international laws. Lem’me go check. (Search frantically………) Nope, nothing. So, wretchard, from a purely American perspective that argument is a no-go AFAIK.

Now, I do believe around the time of pResident Clintoon there was a law put on the books making it illegal for the US to run assassination squads. IOW, doing so is a direct violation of Federal Code.

NahnCee @ 8 said:

Their yipping is becoming louder and more aggressive in a “gimme gimme we DESERVE it” sort of way which makes me wonder who has been promising what to that august body behind the scenes.

Should something like that go down, I believe that you could drop the flag on the revolution. That is one of those this far and no further points. JHMO

Pork Rinds for Allah @ 14: re: Your solution to the Palestinian Question – Thank G-d that the Israelis are more humane than that. They have some who advocate those kind of solutions and rightly then remember their won history. BTW, I have spent well over a year total time in Israel over the last 12 years.

Okay, off to more mundane pursuits.