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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (69407)	9/12/2004 7:28:21 AM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (3) of 793955

But "desperation" is still the wrong word. Places of real desperation do not foment revolutions. People are too busy trying to get enough to eat to have time for ideology in those places. Nadine, that was not the desperation I was talking about. You fussed at me about using the word, frustration, but the desperation I was talking about was the desperation at the extreme end of frustration, not poverty. When you are trying to accomplish some precious goal, you start with the most promising tactics, those options that are the most likely to succeed and/or have the lowest cost. When you are are repeatedly frustrated in your efforts using your best options, you resort to lower and lower probability tactics. Still frustrated, you become desperate for something that might work and will try anything. That's when terrorism starts to look acceptable. That's the desperation I was trying to convey with my hypothetical. I do think that people who have run out of acceptable and promising options will (and should) consider fighting dirty. To overtly refuse on principle to use dirty tactics as a last resort is fine, but to refuse to entertain the option is either weak or unpatriotic.

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