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To: michael97123 who wrote (67012)	12/10/2002 12:27:46 PM
From: zonder	Respond to of 70976

All i said was job#1 was to kill the terrorists. Then we can discuss the rest. We are not discussing "the rest". We are discussing what should be done about the growing enmity between the Muslim world and the West. We are discussing whether or not the strategies of the Bush administration are good or bad. We are discussing whether it is even possible to "kill the terrorists" or maybe is it a better idea to cut off their support from the public and let them wither. All these are issues to be considered before going at it with an ax. What you are proposing is similar to banging your head against the wall to "cure" a headache and then taking care of the damage you have done to it. But the biggest problem is not letting our humanitarian nature get in the way of the anti terror fight. Huh? Its like using chemo therapy against cancer. This is the perfect example. Chemotherapy kills all cells in the body equally, cancerous & healthy cells alike. It is basically poison for the body, administered only to the terminally ill, when the cancerous cells have gone haywire in your body through "metastasis". It is a good allegory of why the method you propose to fight terrorism is not a good one - It is counter productive and it will weaken you.