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To: Lane3 who wrote (1897)	7/20/2005 9:10:28 AM
From: Dale Baker	Read Replies (2) of 540963

That's an excellent summary, KH: Every action humans take has a purpose, of sorts. It's not like people engage in terrorism because all the tennis courts are booked that day and they're bored and have nothing better to do. They're trying to accomplish something. Acknowledging that they have a purpose does not legitimize their tactics. Defeating terrorism involves two issues - the tactics (organization, troops, weapons, funding, etc.) and the purpose, the political agenda behind the tactics. Some insurgencies can be defeated purely on a tactical military basis. They are the distinct minority once an insurgency has taken hold and has a wide following (numbering in the thousands or higher). Most insurgencies are ended through a combination of military stalemate where the target regime doesn't topple, and political negotiations that take away the terrorist grievance or give the terrorists a legitimate political channel to vent their aggression. It's unfortunate that we get into zero-sum arguments that say we must do ONLY one of those, and doing one means ignoring the other. That's a stale debate now. It's not hard to deduce the basic requirements for an antiterrorist military campaign. Sorting out the political side is much harder with the Al Qaeda-type terrorists. Speculating on that would take a lot more space than anyone should ever use on a chat board if they expect readers to finish the post.

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