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To: AK2004 who wrote (147269)	5/17/2002 12:26:28 PM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1585195

"give me an example of conditions that would make it ok for you personally either to blow up or send someone to blow up a bus full of women and children and then go and celebrate the success." Couple of things here. One, who says that the target would have to be a bus? Car bombing a police station, a military guard post, headquarters for the secret police, etc. is still terrorism. In the novella "A Wind from a Burning Woman", the main character takes an asteroid that was being outfitted as a generation ship, and aims it on a collision course with the earth to try to get the Naderite government to admit that it had purposely murdered the group that had been doing the outfitting for political reasons, and then pinned the blame for their deaths on the ones that were killed. Now, in my view, the action of that main character was too extreme, although I will note that it was insufficient to get what she wanted, and random killing of civilians is generally a pointless exercise too. Terrorism is a tool, like anything else. Let's look at the Palestinian situation. What did those suicide bombings accomplish? Tanks and bulldozers. If the suicide bombings had been restricted against Israeli military targets, then Israel would have had a lot of difficulty pulling off their recent response. Not because of world opinion, but because they would have had difficulty in justifying it to their own people.

To: AK2004 who wrote (147269)	5/17/2002 1:52:55 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1585195

re: there are circumstances under which I might engage in terrorism. give me an example of conditions that would make it ok for you personally either to blow up or send someone to blow up a bus full of women and children and then go and celebrate the success. I really would like to hear that..... Albert, any time my city or my country were under attack by an enemy, I would do whatever was necessary to stop them including blowing up civilians. My attitude would be that those civilians are potential entrants into their armed forces and present a very real threat to myself and my countrymen. I would not have a second thought or a moment of remorse. And I doubt any of you out there would do differently should your country, your city, your family et al be threatened and/or under attack. In such circumstances, I think the veneer of civility lifts very quickly. ted