Reply #9: Terrorism...Just Say No.

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1) Stop trying to destabilize the regime in Iran. Sever ties with MEK.

2) Renounce preemptive warfare in all its forms.

3) Every so often, carpet bomb the Capitol so members might learn what real terror is.

4) Trust but verify Israeli compliance with our demands for a freeze on settlement activities. Each violation results automatically in a $100 million dollar reduction in aid.

5) Let Olmert know in no uncertain terms that we are not going to war against Iran and that Israel is on her own if she launches an attack.

6) Hold show trials.

7) Apologize to the soldiers and their families. Apologize for my vote authorizing the war.

8) Begin bringing the troops home en masse, starting in the Philippines because it's doable. Fewer troops, fewer targets for terrorism.

9) Overarching principle, non-intervention. Immediate salutary effects include:

a) huge reduction in military spending
b) warring parties fight to the finish, or come to terms
c) increased resources for domestic security
d) relaxation of international tension
e) over time, a resumption of moral confidence in global affairs

10) We are not going to break our teeth in Waziristan or any forsaken place far from home fighting a slogan.

11) Creation of a new frontline fighting force, the Congressional and Executive Branch Sons And Daughters Division. These folks, and these folks only are drafted, and first to fight. Sorry, no deferments. Stop/loss in effect for the duration.


At the risk of jumping the snark like a certain ghastly harpy, you most emphatically did not ask us to provide a winning foreign policy position on terrorism. I gave you one anyway. Where's yours?