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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank
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To: DOUG H who wrote (27433)9/15/2001 6:56:35 PM
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Thank you. I'm sending that link to some friends. I am pasting the conclusion of the article here, in case some who would find it fascinating didn't read that far; and will paste it on the GWB thread, where we've been talking about this:

"...The terror groups Americans are familiar with—Palestinian bombers and hijackers, IRA hard men—have desires we understand. They perform acts of terror in order to gain sympathy or sow fear. That sympathy or fear is a means to their end: political recognition, a state, compensation. They seek to participate in our world.

But Bin Laden and his followers are alarming because they don't want anything from us. They don't want our sympathy. They want no material thing we can offer them. They don't want to participate in the community of nations. (They don't really believe in the nation-state.) They are motivated by religion, not politics. They answer to no one but their god, so they certainly won't answer to us."
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