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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: Lane3 who wrote (72301)6/15/2008 8:16:31 AM
From: KonKilo  Read Replies (1) of 542048
 
I'm impressed with how many people here are so much smarter and so much more visionary that I am.

You are asking whether terror should be dealt with as a crime or as an act of war.

Then you point out the inadequacies of traditional law enforcement to be an effective force against terror.

Then you ask if there should not be a third way.

All good questions and reasonable points.

In fact, though, there already is a third way: our own intel apparatus working in cooperation with that of other countries.

As evidence, consider how many plots have been uncovered before they came to fruition. (That so many of them have involved hapless gangs plotting hare-brained schemes is no indictment of the intel that unmasked them.)

Legal wiretapping, website monitoring and the infiltration of gangs has proven highly effective in the WOT, more so than blunt military force, IMO.
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