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To: Lane3 who wrote (1815)	7/19/2005 12:34:15 PM
From: epicure	Respond to of 542042

At least I understand where you are coming from. We won't agree on this, but at least I understand your position. thanks

To: Lane3 who wrote (1815)	7/19/2005 12:36:23 PM
From: Dale Baker	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 542042

Looking at the major insurgencies the last 4-5 decades, terrorists/insurgents typically had one or more of three aims: --Intimidating a target regime into giving up a policy the attacking group objects to --Proving that the target regime can't maintain control and order in its own streets while it does something the attacking group objects to --Attack the actual security and economic assets of the target regime as retribution for antiinsurgent attacks Unless the group is some kind of wacked-out anarchists, the violence has a point, which is to protest a particular policy or regime. Fear is just an incidental way to bring popular pressure on a government to abandon a given policy. My concern is that western security services focus more on open, First-Amendment-style protesters than the secret cells that seem to carry out most jihadist attacks. If I were an AlQaeda cell controller in the US, I would make sure my operatives never got near any public expression of anti-US sentiment. Whatever is conflated or subsumed, it's a bad situation for everyone. Legitimate protesters get undue scrutiny while most of the real bad guys hide in the vacuum created where the government isn't snooping.