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To: one_less who wrote (1977)	7/20/2005 5:05:34 PM
From: Dale Baker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 540924

Most terrorist ideology encourages followers to believe that they can revenge a perceived attack or injustice by the target regime and population. They drape that cause in courage and claim it offers superior value to deferring to the target regime's actions. Until you can undermine that claim on political and policy terms, it won't really matter how many terrorists you capture or kill. The very effort by the target regime will simply produce more terrorists who believe that the antiterrorist campaign - no matter how legitimate - is an extension of the original grievance that provoked the terrorism in the first place. There's a Heisenberg principle at work here - the act of resisting terror by the target regime can be turned against that regime as further repression of the terrorist-sanctuary population. Think of it as an ideological judo trick that asymmetrical fighters use against big powers.