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Politics : High Tolerance Plasticity
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To: cnyndwllr who wrote (7696)9/11/2001 6:30:25 PM
From: jim_p  Read Replies (2) of 23153
 
Ed,

"fully justified and are according to international rules of law."

This is nothing short of war, and the only laws that should apply should be the rules of engagement.

The aim was to increase the ranks of terrorist and the all so important support mechanism... the governments.

The action was a calculated risk. The group is depending on the United States to act as they have always acted. Send in the sixth fleet. Fly a couple a hundred sorties. Shoot some missiles. Declare vengeance and go home. After the debris is swept away the support mechanism still exists.

IF the United States were to take this tactic the support mechanism will grow. There will be no end to it and since they have set the "standard" with what happened today. I shudder to think about what the next strike would be.

The second goal of a terrorist act is to get the target government to over react thus showing what a real brute the target government is. This, again, is a calculated risk as it can result in the elimination of the support mechanism if the government is willing to become very brutal.

The answer is to destroy all the support mechanism for terrorism in the world.

Grant Warlaw coined the old phrase, "one man's terrorist is another man's patriot."

We're talking about a multi-country (Libya, Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, Georgia), systematic Air/Ground operation taking several years to plan, fund and execute.

Does the United States have the stomach for a multi-country/multi-year campaign to end mid east terrorism?

Our prayers go out tonight to the people who died in today's senseless violence.

Jim
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