[Austin-ghetto-list] a modest proposal

[J. David Moriaty]

I understand that if you're a true moslem believer and die
defending the faith you will be instantly transported to
paradise, no matter what else you've done, so whiskey and strip
clubs are no big deal as long as you're reasonably sure you
won't die in a car wreck on the way home.

Instead of bombing the desert and threatening to kill people
who believe they'll be instantly transported to paradise should
we succeed, maybe we should try the mutually assured
destruction that has prevented atomic war for so long.  All
we'd have to do is announce that upon another terrorist
incident we'd immediately blast Mecca and Medina into twin
glass-lined craters, and since we'd announced our intent in
advance, leave it to the true believers to figure out how much
blame God would assign them for another such attack.

Dave