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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry
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To: Chas. who wrote (11367)4/2/2004 11:17:08 AM
From: cnyndwllrRead Replies (1) of 81568
 
...so what's left.

Let's take a look at what's been tried in the past. The British tried the police force route to try to stop the IRA. They controlled the country, they spoke the language, they had agents infiltrating and they policed Ireland. None of that did any good. The IRA stopped fighting when they got what they wanted. That's one approach and one lesson.

The Israelis tried another. They couldn't identify many of the terror attackers and their collaborators so they "punished" the whole population from which they came. They limited jobs, they placed curfews, they killed friends and family and they bulldozed houses. They also occupied towns and villages, put in checkpoints and basically shut down a whole society.

The Israelis were not just trying to revenge their losses, they were trying to raise the cost high enough so that the terrorists would either quit or be forced to quit by the society that was feeding, arming, sheltering and hiding those terrorists. What they ACTUALLY DID was to throw gasoline on the fire and create an inferno of increased and committed terrorism that is today more entrenched and supported among the Palestinian population than ever before.

That's not to say that history doesn't reveal effective ways to deal with terrorists. In those cases where there has been success, however, it's come because the methods of suppression were so severe that the locals aided in preventing terrorism. If we lined up a thousand Iraqis and shot them each time one of ours was killed or injured, eventually the Iraqis would either become our best allies in stopping terrorism or we would run out of Iraqis. I don't think that's a method most of us would like to adopt.

so what's left...
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