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Politics : Just the Facts, Ma'am: A Compendium of Liberal Fiction -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Patricia Trinchero who wrote (5263)	3/14/2004 4:10:06 PM
From: redfish	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 90947

"Reagan had a battleship shoot into Lebanon and accidentally hit a village.......many women and children died and that triggered the Beiruit barracks bombing. The US supported the Shah of Iran who was fairly brutal and money hungry. When Khomeni overtook the country of Iran the US had been on the wrong side so the Embassy was seized. The people had undergone much under the Shah. For every effect there has been a cause." I would agree with you, except in the case of modern islamic terrorism. The two cases you cite involved US military personnel and embassy personnel that were stationed overseas. I can understand how they could be considered "fair game" by those who took action against them. But that is not what is happening now. The targets are not "fair game." The attacks are not motivated by any specific political concerns. It's a free for all. So I think what we face today is very different from what we faced then. Reagan pulled us out of Lebanon, and there were no more attacks. There is nothing we can do to forestall further attacks from Al Qaeda except to kill them before they attack again; they have made no political demands, they have asked for no negotations, it is clear that they do NOT want an end to the hostilities.