This is wonderfully funny. Makes we wonder what grouping would Ireland go with? Would it be possible to form an axis of one country if they hate the English government enough for three?

As funny as this post is, it jibes at a terrible truth. There are a lot of "evil ones" out there. Combating the many foreign groups, or even the over 100 domestic groups does not yield itself to a conventional military solution.

To win, all the terrorist has to do is to survive. So far, Omar and Osama appear to have done this, as have the leadership of Taliban and al Quaeda.

A new approach has to be developed for this type of war. Dumping huge sums of money in the military is analagous to dropping huge tonnages of bombs on the sands of Afghanastan. A consideration of the shere number of internet linked groups in our country alone shows magnitude of this problem. One terrorist group, the Hammerskins, formed in Dallas, Tx., has expanded its membership to over 2,000 world wide. While I think dropping a bomb on Texas would be interesting, it wouldn't eliminate this very dangerous group.

Karl von Clausewitcz taught "war is a continuation of politics by other means," in a climate of terrorism we can only protect ourselves by the other means. All war indicates we have a political failure. As a nation we must address the modern reality and explore the political solutions and remedies that are needed.

As a start, we have to remove our blinders and chastize those states that use state terrorism to keep their own people in fear of the violence of the state. The right-wing regimes of Central and South America have done this for years. Secondly we must identify those state that use terrorist groups to wage surrogate war. An example of this is Iran's use of the Hezbollah in Lebanon. Thirdly, we have to clean our own house and close down the Army of God, KKK, and other hate groups right here at home.

Thanks for a great post with a message that goes waaay beyond the humor.