OK, how about some empathy with a hypothetical situation.?

Question

Lets say the US has rocky relations with Canada, trade embargos and tight borders and whatnot. Canada thinks its getting the shaft, and does nothing to get rid of "freedom fighters" in its cities. They build up arms storage facilites and scoff at the laws. Then they begin a ceaseless attack on civilians in the US. Then they kidnap some military persons.

Do we:
A) Do nothing
B) try diplomacy with Canada even though they hate us and don't care about our soldiers and don't know where they are anyway
C) Declare war on Canada
D) attempt to eliminate the combatants

Did you choose A?

You may add some points about Israel or whatever if you like, but just answer the question first, I'll improve it later if it seems to work. Your points may be included.

Answer 1

First of all, that wouldnt happen.

The US and Canada are friends.

Answer 2

If Cuba were to launch dozens of Russian-made missiles onto Miami, I believe the US would launch some serious reprisals. We’d destroy their infrastructure as much as possible from the air, while minimizing damage to civilian areas and populations. We may very well invade with the goal of capturing the leaders who were responsible for the attack and shutting down areas where the attacks were launched and planned.

And we’d be 100% justified in doing so.

Answer 3

C and D together.
no use in acting like Canada is some helpless victim. even if we could catch the responsible criminals, what then? so two years later Canada can grow a new batch of them? make it clear to Canada if they're not serious about security, we'll be serious about doing it for them.
we'll need to employ the method Margaret Thatcher took to ousting the IRA. cut their funding, stop their communication, throw them in prison if they get caught. take all the steam out of the movement, you're wasting your time if you join them. those groups feed not on ideology, but on how much they can pull off. if they can't get anything done, they eventually get over it.
zero tolerance for terror.

Answer 4

Nobody would choose "a".

After 9/11, I think our public and political consciousness has changed enough that most people would skip the diplomatic solution and move right to covertly applying special forces to eliminate the problem and applying pressure on the "Canadian" government to eliminate the problem as well.

Pacifism has no place in the war against terror...

Answer 5

A) it worked so well for France. . .we surrender and wait for the rest of the world to bail us out.

Answer 6

No, we send all the illegals after them. That means the illegal Canadians too.

Answer 7

id go with c.
it would take only 3.5 minutes to conquer canada.

Answer 8

You can find sympathy in the dictionary it's somewhere between shi! and syphlis!

http://www.total-knowledge.com/~willyblues/

Answer 9

i choose B

Answer 10

E) Nuke 'em