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Politics : Politics for Pros- moderated
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To: Lane3 who wrote (67516)9/6/2004 6:14:42 PM
From: Nadine Carroll  Read Replies (1) of 793928
 
It's still a false choice karen. The Jewish partisans of WWII were in the terrible position you describe, and they didn't go around trying to blow up German schoolkids, neither during the war nor in revenge afterwards.

Your whole "outside the box" thinking consists in recycling the old meme that terrorism is caused by desperation; it's the last resort of the desperate. This is false. There are plenty of truly desperate people in the world (think: Sudan) but they are not the terrorists.

It's the relatively rich and well supported causes like Al Qaeda and the Palestinians who are terrorists. Desperation doesn't drive them to terrorism, it's a weapon of choice. The first weapon of choice, not the last; the weapon that they think fits our weakness and will leverage their position best precisely because it's aimed at innocents. Furthermore, they have a well thought out ideology that tells them that it's not only okay to slaughter the innocents in large numbers, it's actually a sacred duty.
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