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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (53843)	7/12/2004 11:24:34 PM
From: Dayuhan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793939

our enemies are both the non-national actors and the nations that willingly supply them, harbor them, and use them as proxies. If all nations were against the terrorists, then we really would have a police problem on our hands. Right now our police problem is bigger than our military problem. The terrorists have found that they can shelter most effectively inside states that are nominal US allies, but lack the ability or will to effectively oppose terrorists. We have no effective way to deal with this problem: US forces cannot operate in Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Indonesia, or Belgium. This is where the terrorists are hiding, and that trend will continue. They can see where it is safe. Some financial support will continue to come from nations, including those that are publicly abasing themselves before us. Our problem on that score is that the amounts involved are comparatively small, which makes them very difficult to trace. Corrupt governments and corrupt leaders have lots and lots of practice at evading the various devices we have for tracking and obstructing the movement of hot money. We focus on the problem of state support for terrorists - and systematically overstate it - not because it is the core of the problem, but because it is an aspect of the problem that we feel comfortable addressing. That self-serving evasion could prove very expensive down the line.