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To: Dayuhan who wrote (54013)	7/14/2004 1:05:34 AM
From: Nadine Carroll	Respond to of 793955

If we truly had to worry only about terrorists hiding in countries with unsympathetic governments but good hiding places such as Pakistan and Saudi Arabia, we would have a much smaller problem than we have today. Two main engines of support for the terrorists are funding and ideology, and both are flowing freely from Iran and Syria, and, yes, factions in SA and Pakistan. How much stronger would the US position be if we could get inspections of what Saddam shipped to the Bekaa? 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 It is also a very serious worry - as states tend to have really serious stuff in terms of weapons and money and training, and a terrorist group with state support is a terrorist group on steroids. Furthermore, governments have addresses that can be pressured, whether they are actively supporting the terrorists or just passively allowing them to do their stuff. That is not to say that anyone can afford to ignore the non-state stuff, it just doesn't lend itself to public diplomacy as much.