Per request, please post under this thread your views of the current events in the Middle East.

-- Ken S. in WC TN (scharabo@aol.com), October 07, 2001

Answers

CNN is reporting that other countries are offering troops, I hope GW has sense enough to accept and deploy them so that America will not appear to be the villian to the rest of the world.

-- mitch hearn (moopups@citlink.net), October 08, 2001.

Just read on the WorldNetDaily website that US and Russian tactical nuclear weapons are deployed and ready to go if the terrorists strike first with nukes of their own or with chemical or biological weapons, although our government has not confirmed this report. Also, there are reports that China is sending troops to Afghanistan to back the Taliban because they are fearful of this new US-Russian alliance in their backyard. I REALLY hope this one is just a rumor. What a mess!

-- Barb (rosemontfarm1@aol.com), October 08, 2001.

China, in the recent past, has been more concerned about the rise of Islamic fundamentalism in their own provinces in that part of the world. Even given the current "alliance" between the US and what's left of Russia I doubt that they would act against heir own self interests and back the Taliban and Osama Bin Hidin'.

-- ray s (mmoetc@yahoo.com), October 08, 2001.

Hello all, I too had heard rumors of China's involvement, but our son in Japan says the base is saying not and had stood down from their alert status although they prpbably are alert again now. Japan is VERY aware of what China is doing so I would say that if they are not worried about this, then it probably is untrue.

-- Barb Fischer (bfischer42@hotmail.com), October 08, 2001.

Well I hope you guys are right! And speaking of Osama Bin Hidin, just got this emailed to me:

>Absolutely the best solution so far.....if only... > >Killing Bin Laden will only create a martyr. Holding him prisoner will >inspire his comrades to take hostages to demand his release. Therefore, I >suggest we do neither. Let the Special Forces, Seals or whatever covertly >capture him, fly >him to an undisclosed hospital and have surgeons quickly perform a >complete >sex change operation. Then we return her to Afghanistan to live as a woman >under the Taliban.

-- Barb (rosemontfarm1@aol.com), October 08, 2001.

This just in-On National Public Radio-"China causiously supportive of U.S.Air strikes"

-- Kelly (ksaderholm@yahoo.com), October 08, 2001.

How many tax $ should bush spend before he gives up.

-- bin jr (bin@laden .com), October 08, 2001.

I'd really like to know the answer to this question...If bin Laden and his followers think that life as an American is so bad and evil, then why in the day or so before the hijackings did the terrorists go to topless bars, Pizza Hut and Walmart?? Obviously, they must have wanted to live life as an American before they died!!

-- Marcia (HrMr@webtv.net), October 08, 2001.

Here is your answer bin jr, As many tax dollars should be spent as to equal the tears shed by the familys of the innocent people killed in the sept 11 attacks!

-- kathy h (ckhart55@earthlink.net), October 08, 2001.

If we truly believe that free choice and Americanization are the way to go, then we shouldn't have to send much more than TV's and food. Feed them so they have time to watch TV and be brainwashed like the rest of us. Osama Pinata can just get whacked around by all the immigrant workers we send over to help them farm. I would think they should welcome the opportunity to convert all of them devout Catholics to the 'true' faith of Mohammed.....:-) As far as the sex change idea, BRAVO. I didn't even think of THAT one. I thought we should send him to the moon and isolate him, but keep him alive so he isn't a martyr. Actually, though, I think the martyr thing is overplayed. Al HokCHHHHayda (Quaida)has so many martyrs to worship, I'm surprised they'd have time for bin' hidin'. In this country, it would be like a lawyer in Washington. Just another pig in the litter. Not even exceptional like the runt. (Well, maybe the runt with half a billion dollars in his camelbags.)

-- Dan C. (dconine@dotnet.com), October 09, 2001.