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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (37825)	8/14/2002 10:12:12 PM
From: Dayuhan	Respond to of 281500

these folks can generally can only be trained in nations where their governments are complicit, such as Afghanistan was. Unfortunately, wrong again. Indoctrination and training go on in plenty of nations where Governments are anything but complicit, including in the USA. Remember, they don't need very many people to do a great deal of damage, and terrorists don't need a great deal of weapons or combat training. Cells of 3-4 people can be indoctrinated and trained in a suburban basement. How much training is needed to whip up a truckload of explosives and drive it into a building? Ask Tim McVeigh: not much. But don't try and tell us that appeasement and containment is some kind of solution. All it amounts to is avoidance of the problem and unwillingness to apply the cure.to a festering disease, Islamic Extremism. I wouldn't say that it is. But automatic resort to military action is no solution either. If we conquered Saudi Arabia tomorrow, would the Islamic extremists there cease to be Islamic extremists? Not likely. We need to use force where the benefit obtained exceeds the risk. We need to do a whole lot of intelligence and detective work. Above all, we have to use our heads before we use our muscles.