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To: tejek who wrote (184927)	3/16/2004 7:33:29 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575556

Ted, Unfortunately, our leaders are 'old school' and want to have wars with countries thinking that in the process that will eliminate al Qaeda. It won't. I agree with you 100%. That's not the way I interpreted TigerPaw's remarks, though. His assertion was that Bush has elevated this "uncommon crime" to the level of martyrdom, and that Bush has legitimized the holy war by calling it one, instead of calling it a matter of law enforcement. Tenchusatsu

To: tejek who wrote (184927)	3/17/2004 11:14:41 AM
From: TigerPaw	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575556

we can't treat them like they are another nation and attack them like we attacked Iraq. Exactly, Al Qaeda can be broken the way the mafia was broken. True, it is an international problem in a way that organized crime has traditionaly has not. That is just a change in tactics, not in concept. It may also be that warfare and anti-terrorist actions have to be combined at times. Defeating the Taliban may have been necessary to stop their basing of Al Qaeda, but it is a grave mistake to confuse the warfare necessary to change the Taliban's policy from the act of catching the terrorists. This is an area where the administration has confused itself because it lacks the languange skills to distinguish between the different situations and goals. TP