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

To: The Philosopher who wrote (58815)	9/18/2002 8:04:52 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

"While I recognize the overlap I don't think guerilla tactics or guerilla warfare is the same as terrorism. " Hmmm. I think you're making a distinction without a difference. No I think there is a difference. Guerillas do commit terrorist acts, and terrorists sometimes fight guerilla wars but a guerilla war is a war against your enemies military strength but by means of stealth and hit and run tactics. Terrorism is just blowing things up or killing people without any hope of having a military impact, just to hurt or scare people you don't like. Assume you were bin Laden, and had his passion to drive the US out of Muslim lands forever. How would YOU go about it?? Do you have a better, more effective strategy than bin Laden, keeping in mind that he has to keep his forces motivated through decades of struggle? I can't think of any good strategy to try to implement bin Laden's aims even if I am not limiting myself by my ideas about morality. The imbalance in force against him is just too great and our interest in the area is strong enough that even if he had enough power to wage a true guerilla war against us like the Vietnamese communists did we would be unlikely to leave. Well I'll try to stretch for something creative (but really beyond bin Laden's ability I think). If he could find a way to eliminate all the oil from the middle east or a way to supply an better energy alternative so that the oil become unimportant then we might greatly reduce our involvement in the area. Tim