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To: Condor who wrote (658)	9/21/2001 9:00:12 AM
From: Art Bechhoefer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

No strategy against terrorists can be effective without continuing, ACTIVE support from Muslim countries, thereby eliminating hiding places and the ability to recruit more terrorists. That's what I'm talking about. A mere military strike or the freezing of financial assets (assuming it's even feasible) does nothing to neutralize the terrorists. But turning their own people against them is the ONLY way ultimately to stop this. That's why the approach taken by Secretary Powell was considerate and correct, but the hard line approach favored by the Republican radicals can only lose us the support of the very people we need to stop this. The whole posture of the Bush strategy reminds me of another event that took place over 35 years ago, when the U.S., claiming a "provocation," did a little shooting up in the Tonkin Gulf. This blazing gun approach is more Texas than anything else. President Johnson said it all at the time, in a classified comment that I had the privilege of reading: He said, when an aid suggested a negotiated peace in Vietnam, "This isn't the way we do things in Texas." Art