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To: Lane3 who wrote (30306)2/18/2004 11:31:27 AM
From: Ilaine  Read Replies (2) of 793750
 
I disagree with Buchanan's basic premise. I think we did something monumentally foolish by allowing some nations to become failed states and thereby havens for international terrorism. The terrorists are not strong enough to build nations, but are strong enough to turn nations into failed states, and use them as springboards to launch terrorist attacks and then withdraw behind borders which traditionally have been non-transgressable.

Terrorists take our traditional strengths and exploit them and make them into weaknesses. Secure national borders are traditionally strengths. Terrorists turned the secure national borders of Afghanistan, Iraq, Yemen, and Colombia into weaknesses.

It's as cynical as using children as shields, as using teenaged women as vectors for explosives.

Interdiction of safe havens is imperative. We may not eradicate terrorism but we can weaken it.
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