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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (127715)3/29/2004 11:30:39 PM
From: Zeuspaul  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
Do you really understand what you're saying? First you acknowledge we have our own domestic terrorist "wackos", but then try and claim that taking actions against them only encourages more terrorism..

So what do you propose, ignore them? Cuddle them? Give them some warm milk and cookies?

I propose we reduce our dependence on the ME. Short term there is no easy fix.

Covert actions would be more effective as they rob the terrorists of the press.

Terrorists are trying to create high drama and to force their targeted victims to alter their policies.

Exactly. We don't want their nose in our business and we shouldn't put our nose in their business. America's weakness is it's dependence on the ME. If it were not for the oil we wouldn't care about them and if we kept our nose out of their territory they wouldn't care about us. They have leverage over us and we allowed it to happen.

But they know that their support only grows when it has no derogatory impact on their support base (governmental and power elites). When their actions create a situation where their targets carry out retaliation that affects an entire region, aimed at undermining and destroying their support base through military, financial, and political pressure, these terrorists eventually find themselves standing alone.

That's the theory but it doesn't work. The Israelis have tried that with the Palestinians.

The theory may work in an affluent society.
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