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To: Sig who wrote (125892)	3/11/2004 7:15:41 AM
From: quehubo	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

Sig - Perhaps you may consider the reaction of the USA for 20 years. As long as the terrorism was directed against Americans who dared venture abroad we did nothing material in response to attacks from 1983 until 9/11. It was not until 9/11 that we responded with some resolve. Today you have many people in this country lulled back into a dream that some how or another we are safe here again. Of course if the attack in Spain is related to their participation in the CoW in Iraq, they may will feel they are safe because they are doing nothing proactive to incite the terrorists.

To: Sig who wrote (125892)	3/11/2004 7:55:37 AM
From: Bill Ulrich	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Sig, terrorism on a multi-national level hasn't really been a forethought since the 16th-century pirates. The world, essentially…forgot. Baader-Meinhof: who outside of Germany cared? IRA: who outside of the UK cared? Brigate Rossa (Red Brigade): who outside of Italy cared? Basque Separatists: who outside of Spain cared? PLA in '72 Munich: well, after the shot-put and decathalon, nobody really cared...much. Lebanon, '83: hey, that was Lebanon. The world was much more comparmentalized back then. Now, everybody gets hit everywhere (except in Finland). The "failure to recognize" is somewhat natural, considering the circumstances, but also you'll soon see that corrected. * The end of global terrorism is just one Eiffel Tower away (so to speak, that is). * "I'm rather irked that some nations fail to recognize terrorism as a world-wide phenomenon and do not give full and active support to its suppression."