Our ONLY next step

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Originally posted by The Original Ape
After thinking about what happened at the wtc, I had to ask myself is war our only recourse. Is it the best recourse? Consider this: in our country, a person is innocent until proven guilty.
Does our government know who's responsible for the tradgedy? If so, why haven't they told us? What proof do they have?

I've been wondering the same thing. We have to have some sort of retaliation ~ I think that's indisputable ~ because if we don't, then we will send a message that when this happens, America is all talk.

As far as the demands that we have made, I've been thinking about them, seriously. If, and God forbid, if an American did this, or was suspected of doing this to another country, what protocol would we follow? Would we just hand over one of our millionares? If there is mounting evidence against an American, who tries him, America, the UN, or the country in which the crime was committed?

The only thing that I can do because I'm not familiar with the law as it pertains to international crimes is have faith that our President and his staff do. Therefore, if Afghanistan does not hand over bin Laden, unfortunately, yes war may be the best answer. I'm willing to bet that the US has given them some evidence ~ remember, they can't tell us everything~ if not, then why did the Taliban take away all of bin Laden's communication devices? To punish him? No, because he's shooting himself in the foot and endangering their country by using them. I think the Taliban knows he's guilty, but because he's done so much for them they are stalling. Even if they tell him to leave, to me that's just aiding him to escape. A message has to be sent in case he does flee that any country that harbors him will suffer repercussions.

In reference to telling us more about the evidence against bin Laden, personally, I think especially with war being a possiblity, the media is covering entirely too much already. Some of the things that are being shown, like soldiers in training, info about bombers, etc. is entirely TMI. We are not the only ones who watch TV.