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To: NightOwl who wrote (126060)	3/12/2004 10:20:21 PM
From: Bilow	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 281500

Hi NightOwl; Re: "Sure but I don't know what [conspiracy] means in Iran, Syria, Pakistan, or Madrid for that matter. And that is where the terrorists are today." All those places have police forces responsible for hunting down all sorts of criminals, including conspiracy. Given our present problems in Iraq, I doubt that there are any serious plans to use US military forces in Iran, Syria, Pakistan or Spain. My point is that preventing terrorism is primarily a police problem, using the laws against conspiracy etc., not a military problem, using soldiers. What's your point? Re: "But that's a far cry from saying that those are the only solutions needed post Afghanistan ..." You keep talking about "solutions". Where do you get the idea that there is a solution to terrorism? Re: "... or that it was a waste of time to go into Iraq." Iraq had little or no connection to world terrorism, at least not in the part Saddam controlled before the invasion. All that other stuff you mentioned (pipe bombs and c.) does have something to do with terrorism, but had nothing to do with Iraq. This is why Iraq was a sideshow, not a part of the "war on terrorism". Like you've said yourself, the politicians try to give the public what they want, and what the public wants is protection. Our military is a great tool for war against an army, but a lousy tool for police work. Bush ignored that fact, and decided to use our military to fight crime. The result was quite predictable, a waste of lives, money and time. That Iraq had no connection to pipe bombs is exactly my point. Now we've got a situation in Iraq where an entire generation of terrorists is being trained into effective use of roadside bombs. What do you think will happen when they start sneaking that technology into the West? Send our military into Iraq to stop it? [Hint: We already tried that, LOL.] -- Carl