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To: carranza2 who wrote (73398)	2/12/2003 4:44:13 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 281500

This part doesn't make any sense to me: So what does the European counterterrorist community propose to do about Saddam and his concealed weapons of mass destruction? He's back in his box, they argue, and subjected to the daily humiliation of U.N. inspectors officially authorized to run roughshod over Iraq's sovereignty. A few more months and the inspectors may get lucky with U.S. intelligence to guide them. Alternatively, Iraqi generals may screw up their courage and gang up on Saddam Soprano. But all such talk is dismissed by the war hawks as the prattle of appeasers. Yeah, sure, Saddam is back in his box now that he has 200,000 troops on his borders. Can they stay there forever? Of course not. Suppose they do stay for another six months and Blix & co get lucky and find some chemical weapons. Well, what then? Will the the Europeans then say, okay you have a case for war? Don't be absurd, they will say, "Well, there you are, you see? Inspections are working." They already did this when the inspectors found 16 empty missiles. So this European "answer" amounts to saying that American troops should sit on Saddam's borders forever (can you say "sitting ducks"?) while inspectors run round and round looking for the needle in a haystack. Excuse me? Am I missing something here?

To: carranza2 who wrote (73398)	2/12/2003 9:46:24 PM
From: LindyBill	Respond to of 281500

A globalized nihilistic force, he wrote, "is everywhere and nowhere" and totally dedicated to the destruction of Western societies. The article has the "French View," that's for sure. But it is on the right track with the above statement. The sunny side of the argument is that this force is not going to be as tough to beat as the article makes it out to be. I agree with it that a lot of these people are now in Chechnya, and our next attack in the states may be made by Euro looking Chechs. These people need funding and a place to hide in safety. As we keep taking this away from them over the coming years, it is going to become harder and harder for them to operate. I think the tendency is to underestimate the psychological effect that the of taking out of Governments that support Terrorists will have on the movement. This constant refrain of "Oh, don't attack them, you are only stirring up a Hornet's nest!" is self defeating and wrong.