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

To: thames_sider who wrote (37637)	11/20/2001 9:13:12 AM
From: Neocon	Respond to of 82486

As I said, there is a difference between prudent tactics and engaging in certain actions because one hasn't the guts to do otherwise. What you interpret as making perverse sense, because it maximizes outrage and publicity, I see as taking the easy way to make a point. After all these years, there is little reason to think such tactics work, after all. How much has the IRA gotten for its troubles? The Palestinians? They got more out of the Intifada, and every time there is a terrorist outrage, the Israelis become more hardline. Face it: they are either fools or cowards, or both. As for the bombing, we are, in fact, doing something tactically prudent. After all, we could have solved our problems without placing any troops at risk by dropping tactical nukes or incendiary bombs. We have been pretty conservative not only with our own people, but with theirs. Surely you have heard the theory that Don Juanism is frequently a cover for homosexual panic? Similarly, I think that it is not unlikely for a bunch of pathetic losers and wimps to go play at being terrorists, in order to cover their sense of inadequacy and anxiety. Just because they are at the camps does not mean they are brave warriors.......