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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (113145)	8/28/2003 8:17:16 PM
From: KonKilo	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

I don't know, Shilohcat, and frankly, it doesn't strike me as a very important question. If we are creating more terrorists than we are killing, it becomes a very important question. We've already seen that staying quiet enough to make these guys leave us alone doesn't work too well. Kicking the tar out of a defenseless, innocent country isn't turning out to be such a good idea either. These are the only two choices? (jihadists think) that all the Muslim world's problems are due to an attack from the West... This seems a bit simplistic. In the past, bin Laden's demands have been quite specific and involved the West freeing what he considered political prisoners and leaving the sacred lands, which, even if we are unable/unwilling to comply with, hardly seem an unreasonable request from any foe.