What it means to be an American

[MaggieL]

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

Maybe sending everyone that has demonstrated a working knowledge to Gitmo, too.

Quite a straw man. Attribute an extreme position to the opposition as a hypothetical and then exclaim how extreme it is.

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

So terrorists that learn to fly a 767 are too dumb to operate a ham radio?

Learning to steer an already-flying 767 into a building is pretty damned easy...it's not rocket science. But my points were that 1) there's much easier ways today to get better communications under most circumstances and 2) the strategic significance of HF radio is already recognized.

And nobody believes that it's possible to choke off all communications between any two people on the planet.