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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (119621)	11/15/2003 7:56:03 AM
From: Sig	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

<<<Terrorist groups have no soveriegn borders, nor national flags. They act as offensive weapons for countries who are afraid of directly attacking the US. They hide within other countries, sometimes within our own. When they attack, how do we defend ourselves except by turning our own country into an isolationist fortress, keeping all the "bad foreigners" out??>> Terrorists are making a big mistake- they may want to "get" the US but are attacking Saudi Arabia, Mosques, the UN the Red Cross, the Italians, and now Turkey. Blowing up pipelines hurts not only the Iraqis, but all the countries that receive and profit from, or use, that oil. The result of this unorganized campaign is to make enemies of all peoples including their "own" Muslims and demonstrate they are a hazard to all nations leaders. They will end up being welcome nowhere, supported by none, and hunted down by all. Sig

To: Hawkmoon who wrote (119621)	11/15/2003 11:02:41 AM
From: Dennis O'Bell	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Terrorist groups have no soveriegn borders, nor national flags. They act as offensive weapons for countries who are afraid of directly attacking the US. They hide within other countries, sometimes within our own. When they attack, how do we defend ourselves except by turning our own country into an isolationist fortress, keeping all the "bad foreigners" out ?? Well, the "insurgents" (what a nice way of renaming terrorists who murder Red Cross personnel with a suicide truck bomb or two...) are obviously dreaming of their own "national flag". Some statistic I saw in the NYT estimates some 5000 people really behind the problems the coalition is facing. Imagine even 500 Tim McVeighs active in the US ! That would create some disorder.... Aren't most military coups carried off with far fewer than 5000 people ? Since I can't imagine any way the coalition can turn over the government to Iraq while these people are active there, unless the Iraqi population were to unite against them in their own interests. That is really the only solution in this situation, and I don't think there is any such soliderity we can count on.