To: Rashid Garuba who wrote (18401 ) 9/13/2001 12:14:18 PM From: James Strauss Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 52237 What if the enemy didn't care if it lost it's life?? Israel has been fighting this kind for years. It never ends. No matter how hard a line you take, there will be others willing to sacrifice themselves in revenge. So, until the Israel/middle east/US involvement problem is resolved, there will be attacks. I guess what I am trying to say is attacking and bringing them to justice, although what should be and will be done, is not the deterrent we imagine it is. Rashid: What is about to happen is a response to terrorism unlike anything seen before... The U.S., with the help of an international military force, will systematically eliminate one terrorist cell after another, and those states that have been supporting them... Why, because the acts of cowardice we saw on Tuesday were not done by God fearing people... They were carried out by fanatics under the impression that they would be in heaven with Alah and have a reward of a harem with 70 women... No where in the Koran is such disregard for innocent lives condoned... We have modern day Hitlers mesmerizing their followers to kill innocents in the name of Alah... What a rude awakening they are going to get when they finally meet their maker... I don't think there will be any harem or 70 women waiting for them... I think they'll spend eternity re-living all their acts of terrorism, but this time, as the victim... As for the Israeli/Palestinian prospects for peace??? Last year Arafat was given 95% of what he had asked for, and walked away... They don't want peace... Imagine if some foreign power now tried to force President Bush and Usama Ben Ladin to sit down at a peace table... Unfortunately, there will be a war... Many will die... Mostly of the Moslem faith... The terrorists and their supporters have left the civilized world no other choice at this time... The English are not going to wait for the tower of London and Big Ben and Parliament to be bombed... The French are not going to wait for the Eiffel Tower and Champs-Elysées & Arc de Triomphe to be desintigrated... One civilized country after another will choose unity vs religious fanatical chaos... As such, the line in the sand has been drawn... The light of humanity and the civilized world will shine everywhere... There will be no place for those that take innocent lives in the name of God to hide... Jim