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To: Nick who wrote (41187)	9/11/2001 12:24:43 PM
From: thames_sider	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 65232

I didn't know Afghanistan had declared war on the US. Has it? Or has Pakistan? I didn't even think the Taliban had done that. Some factions - who almost certainly have the approval of elements in the Taliban leadership - seem (I've never actually seen better than 'reliable rumour') to be backing terrorist acts against the US. Some reasonably prominent US politicians - Moynihan? - have backed Sinn Fein. There's an annual state-approved rally in NYC - I believe you cheerily call it the "St Patrick's Day Parade" - which at which people used to gather, openly, very substantial funding for Noraid. Which directly funded the IRA. Dublin, of course, only very recently removed an article from its constitution claiming NI as part of Ireland - explicitly supporting the aims (if not means) of the IRA. And many supporters and workers of the IRA presumably came from Ireland. So, would nukes work there? As for comparing bin Laden to the IRA, what's the difference? The dead people of Omagh won't see much. OK, so when the Baltic Exchange, London, was bombed - during an IRA 'ceasefire', if you will - they were less lethal. Same plan, though. However, we didn't nuke Belfast. (Popular though such action might have been). Or Dublin. Or even New York. The answer to terrorism is NOT more extreme violence. It does not work. It simply gives them more martyrs, and more support. And suggesting genocide, or the massacre of millions of completely uninvolved innocents - on the off-chance that the guilty man might be among them - is abhorrent. (Besides which, it didn't work in Vietnam either. Afghanistan is tougher).