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To: LindyBill who wrote (52128)	10/15/2002 8:18:56 AM
From: zonder	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 281500

LindyBill - believe me, I sympathize. I come from a place where more than 10,000 people have died over the past decade due to terrorism. Bombed malls, bloody schools, I remember them well. > we were attacked by people who were harbored there, > that the Taliban refused to give up. What did you > expect us to do? Personally speaking, I would much rather see the 007s or their CIA equivalents go in and get the terrorists one by one. Blanket bombing was a little too much for me, but hey, that's perhaps just me... This is the problem with terrorism - that you cannot fight a conventional war against it without killing innocents, as you have no idea of the exact whereabouts of your target, and they hide well within civilians. I have said this before, but let me repeat - the lesson we have learned in my country is that the best way to fight terrorism is to cut off the terrorists' support from the population by improving their lives, diminishing the reasons for which they support the terrorists, so that you will now know where the terrorists are and where the civilians are.