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Politics : Politics for Pros- moderated
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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (123212)7/4/2005 11:39:43 AM
From: Ilaine  Read Replies (2) of 793743
 
I don't know about Attila, but Genghis Khan, for one, operated under the principle of "surrender and live, resist and die." The alternative was for every man, woman and child to be enslaved or put to the sword. That's terror as a tactic.

Similarly, massacre of apostates and heretics (St. Bartholomew's Day massacre, as recently as 1572), intended to scare people from straying from the officially sanctioned pathway to righteousness. Co-religionists might suffer terribly during war, but were not massacred like heretics.

Asymmetric attacks in order to cause fear and panic? How about the (foiled) Gunpowder Plot?

What are the names of Mars's sons and attendants? Phobos and Deimos (Fear and Panic.)

Newspapers and satellite TV just make it easier to spread fear and loathing. How many of us would care about one woman disappearing on the island of Aruba but for satellite TV? Or be afraid of swimming in the ocean because of two or three shark attacks on obscure beaches in Florida? Heck, there isn't even a Kinko's within a 100 miles of the first attack. No Fedex either. How obscure is that?

I wonder if terrorists notice that there's nothing important on the news and decide now's the time? People are mentioning that this summer's news cycle reminds them of 2001, nothing in the news but Condit and sharks.
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