# Bomb THIS! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [October 10, 2001, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bomb-this/86565 "2001-10-10T13:28:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Fiddle\_Peghead](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiddle_peghead/32/3506_2.png) [@Fiddle\_Peghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiddle_Peghead)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2001, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bomb-this/86565/1 "2001-10-10T13:28:52Z")
Great news from Afghanistan. I’m sure you’ve all seen the pictures, like the bombed out training camp. Well, what you didn’t know is, along with the destruction of the buildings, the BLUEPRINTS WERE ALSO DESTROYED! This is great, see, because now they can never rebuild them, right? Yeah. Can’t build a building without blueprints. NO MORE TRAINING CAMPS! Oh, and did you see those airport runways, you know, the ones with the big craters in them? Well, we got lucky there too, see, because what you didn’t know is that in Afghanistan, there is NO MORE CONCRETE. Yeah. See. You certainly can’t repair an airport runway without concrete, can you? Nah, of course not. NO MORE AIRPORTS! But the best news is those, nudge, nudge, “humanitarian aid packages”. What you didn’t know is that the food was secretly spiked with _selective memory erasing agents_. See. These make all Afghanis who eat them FORGET WHAT COUNTRY BOMBED THEM! Cool, huh? So now, see, not only can they not, say, rebuild the training camps (remember, no blueprints!), they wouldn’t know what country to attack even if they did so. And finally, a side benefit to the U.S. - What you might not know is, we are now making plans to bomb the Philippines, Syria, both Iraq and Iran, _and_ Fredonia. If we’re lucky we could stretch this out indefinitely. Those bombs are expensive, you know, and a lot of people need jobs right now. Think of the boost to the economy! Bombs are good. Bombs are GOOOOOOOD!!! ---
**Author:** ![Waverly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/57b2e6/32.png) [@Waverly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Waverly)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2001, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bomb-this/86565/2 "2001-10-10T13:30:48Z")
Who wants pie? ---
**Author:** ![Arden\_Ranger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b487fb/32.png) [@Arden\_Ranger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arden_Ranger)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2001, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bomb-this/86565/3 "2001-10-10T13:34:30Z")
Switch to decaf. ---
**Author:** ![gobear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8dc957/32.png) [@gobear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gobear)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2001, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bomb-this/86565/4 "2001-10-10T13:34:55Z")
Nice beat, easy to dance to, but it is utterly incoherent. I give it an 85. [sub]What, nobody remembers American Bandstand?[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Drastic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Drastic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drastic)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2001, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bomb-this/86565/5 "2001-10-10T13:41:15Z")
I was given to understand that there would be cake and pie? ---
**Author:** ![grendel72](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/91b2a8/32.png) [@grendel72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/grendel72)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2001, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bomb-this/86565/6 "2001-10-10T13:41:46Z")
Actually, the OP more closely resembles the Soul Train Scramble Board. ---
**Author:** ![Syzygy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Syzygy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Syzygy)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2001, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bomb-this/86565/7 "2001-10-10T13:46:12Z")
\ Thanks for playing. ---
**Author:** ![Waverly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/57b2e6/32.png) [@Waverly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Waverly)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2001, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bomb-this/86565/8 "2001-10-10T13:48:23Z")
I have a lovely dutch apple that I bought at a farm market. I also just brewed a carafe of espresso, though I don’t think **notcynical** should have any more caffeine. ---
**Author:** ![Cheesesteak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cheesesteak/32/3694_2.png) [@Cheesesteak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheesesteak)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2001, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bomb-this/86565/9 "2001-10-10T14:15:23Z")
mmmmmmm, apple pie… You know, I betcha **notcynical** is one of those “cake” people, can’t trust any of 'em. ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Amazing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@Captain\_Amazing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Amazing)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2001, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bomb-this/86565/10 "2001-10-10T14:27:10Z")
You know, **notcynical** , I think you picked a misleading user name. ---
**Author:** ![grendel72](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/91b2a8/32.png) [@grendel72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/grendel72)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2001, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bomb-this/86565/11 "2001-10-10T14:29:15Z")
Actually, I believe the username is a misspelling of **nonsensical**. ---
**Author:** ![Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e19adc/32.png) [@Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2001, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bomb-this/86565/12 "2001-10-10T14:40:14Z")
As a rant, that one bombed. ---
**Author:** ![lno](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a8b319/32.png) [@lno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lno)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2001, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bomb-this/86565/13 "2001-10-10T15:00:17Z")
See, more people would have come if you said there’d be punch and pie. ---
**Author:** ![Fiddle\_Peghead](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiddle_peghead/32/3506_2.png) [@Fiddle\_Peghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiddle_Peghead)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2001, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bomb-this/86565/14 "2001-10-10T15:02:17Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by grendel72 \* > \*\*Actually, I believe the username is a misspelling of **nonsensical**. \*\* Finally, a somewhat amusing reply. Someone said it was incoherent, and that may be true. All I really wanted to say was you can’t get rid of terrorists by destroying their training camps. You have to get rid of their desire to build them. How do we do that? I do not profess to know the answer. Whoever solves that puzzle should get a million Nobel Peace Prizes. ---
**Author:** ![Fenris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fenris/32/498_2.png) [@Fenris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fenris)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2001, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bomb-this/86565/15 "2001-10-10T15:03:41Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by lno \* > \*\*See, more people would have come if you said there’d be punch and pie. \*\* I dunno: Key Lime Pie and Punch? Yuk. Fenris ---
**Author:** ![Doctor\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctor_jackson/32/32_2.png) [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2001, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bomb-this/86565/16 "2001-10-10T15:09:12Z")
> [@](#): > > All I really wanted to say was you can’t get rid of terrorists by destroying their training camps. So I’m guessing this wouldn’t work with the Atlanta Falcons, either. Damn. ---
**Author:** ![Violet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/ebca7d/32.png) [@Violet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Violet)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2001, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bomb-this/86565/17 "2001-10-10T15:17:25Z")
Maher, on Politically Incorrect last night, said the U.S. is dropping bombs and snacks. That was cute. Destroying their training camps is a good start, IMHO. ---
**Author:** ![grendel72](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/91b2a8/32.png) [@grendel72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/grendel72)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2001, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bomb-this/86565/18 "2001-10-10T15:58:26Z")
Hey, **notcynical**. Sorry to shitpile on you, I’ve certainly been guilty of the freakishly garbled posting style you demonstrated myself. Early morning, no coffee, y’know. I actually agree with you, to an extent. It just seems so fucking _retarded_, in the true sense of the word, that people still resolve issues by violence. The mental image I get of war is always the same, little kids kicking the shit out of each other in the sandbox. My main question to you is, do you have a better solution? Somebody has to have a better solution than war or playing the victim. ---
**Author:** ![Fiddle\_Peghead](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiddle_peghead/32/3506_2.png) [@Fiddle\_Peghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiddle_Peghead)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2001, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bomb-this/86565/19 "2001-10-10T16:26:02Z")
**grendel72** , actually I was rather going for the “raving lunatic” effect in the OP, meaning to draw attention to the utter futility of trying to rid the world of terrorism in this way. But as I said earlier, I don’t have a solution. Note I didn’t say _better_, since I don’t consider this a solution at all. And all this talk of hitting other countries next is extremely troubling. I really don’t think we can ever rid the world of this scourge. And if not, does this mean we will be perpetually bombing some part of the world for the rest of our existence? Thanks for the thoughtful reply though. ---
**Author:** ![coosa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@coosa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/coosa)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2001, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bomb-this/86565/20 "2001-10-10T16:32:29Z")
[QUOTE] \*Originally posted by notcynical \* \*\* > [@](#): > > Someone said it was incoherent, and that may be true. All I really wanted to say was you can’t get rid of terrorists by destroying their training camps. You have to get rid of their desire to build them. How do we do that? I do not profess to know the answer. Whoever solves that puzzle should get a million Nobel Peace Prizes. \*\* Much better. The sarcasm simply didn’t come through in your OP. Believe it or not, we do have posters here who would say the same thing _seriously_. > [@](#): > > I really don’t think we can ever rid the world of this scourge I agree, but have no better idea of how to deal with it than what we are doing. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bomb-this/86565.md?page=2)