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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: DOUG H who wrote (27433)	9/15/2001 6:56:35 PM
From: E	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 82486

Thank you. I'm sending that link to some friends. I am pasting the conclusion of the article here, in case some who would find it fascinating didn't read that far; and will paste it on the GWB thread, where we've been talking about this: "...The terror groups Americans are familiar with—Palestinian bombers and hijackers, IRA hard men—have desires we understand. They perform acts of terror in order to gain sympathy or sow fear. That sympathy or fear is a means to their end: political recognition, a state, compensation. They seek to participate in our world. But Bin Laden and his followers are alarming because they don't want anything from us. They don't want our sympathy. They want no material thing we can offer them. They don't want to participate in the community of nations. (They don't really believe in the nation-state.) They are motivated by religion, not politics. They answer to no one but their god, so they certainly won't answer to us."

To: DOUG H who wrote (27433)	9/15/2001 7:29:06 PM
From: 2MAR$	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

According to CNN's Peter Bergen, author of a forthcoming book: Bin Laden, Holy War, Inc., catchy title ...

To: DOUG H who wrote (27433)	9/15/2001 7:41:47 PM
From: 2MAR$	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 82486

It is a mistake to assume that killing Bin Laden means killing his movement. It's true that Bin Laden is an iconic leader who inspires his followers and millions of sympathizers in the Muslim world. But eliminating Bin Laden would do nothing to decrease the intensity of the other militant Islamists. that is prolly bullsh*t ....and there is one thing we can give Bin Laden that he wants : Martyrdom. First thing on the agenda is go and get him...and show how really tiny and insignificant they are up close. There is absolutely no other option , except that the Pakistanis or Taliban give him up.