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To: KLP who wrote (52008)	10/14/2002 2:15:52 PM
From: Ilaine	Respond to of 281500

If I were forced to choose only one way to go after terrorists, it would be the way that Germany is doing it, through surveillance, interviews, wire-taps, freezing bank accounts, forensics, and the like. The choice the US has made, forcing Saddam to comply with the UN resolutions and disarm, is our choice, and it doesn't mean that nations which choose not to help us are weak on terrorism, in my opinion.

To: KLP who wrote (52008)	10/14/2002 2:34:07 PM
From: Elsewhere	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

What is the "international community" doing about "international terrorism"... The ISAF, for instance, is stabilizing the situation in Afghanistan. And in 1991, when Iraq actually invaded another country, the UN didn't hesitate to support an international coalition fighting Saddam's forces. The open question obviously is how useful the current course of the US government, and especially the threat of an Iraq invasion, is to deal with terrorism. There's one good-case scenario which could reconcile the positions of supporters and opposers of an Iraq war: if the strong pressure exerted by the USA is a "negotiating position" which is ultimately intended to improve the UN by forcing it to act effectively against Iraq's WMD threat. Demanding more than you ultimately want to achieve is common practice, see the following book by Howard Raiffa: The art and science of negotiation amazon.com Time will tell.