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To: GST who wrote (128022)	3/31/2004 9:13:21 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

If they could capture them as easily as they could kill them they might do so. But who really knows. Its all speculation about someone else's possible responses to a hypothetical situation. It can be hard enough to understand someone else's reaction to a real situation or our own to be sure about our own response to some hypothetical situation. Of course Hammas just wants the Israelis dead and doesn't limit it focus to attacks on Israeli military or Israeli leadership. Combating terrorism is somewhere between a normal war and normal law enforcement. I don't think that a nation facing a severe terrorist threat can limit itself entirely to normal law enforcement at least if it does not have total control on the ground. Israel has the capability to move in to Gaza or the West Bank any time it wants to but it doesn't exercise strong day to day control over the whole area. If bin Laden was going to a mosque in New Jersey every week then we could probably arrest him. If on other hand he was in an area not under our control and was surrounded by radical followers I wouldn't object to putting a hellfire in to his car or dropping a 500lb smart bomb on his house. Tim