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To: RMF who wrote (24329)	7/17/2006 6:47:35 AM
From: Ilaine	Respond to of 541119

I am reminded of a computer simulation I read about, an early example of game theory on a computer. Programmers competed to design simulated life forms which could be pitted against each other, to see which would win. The winning bug ate everything in its path. In a real ecosystem, immediately after it consumed everything else, it would have nothing left to consume and would die. (Consuming itself can't sustain life, either, see Laws of Thermodynamics.) I view terrorism as analogous. They can win, in the short term, by killing everything in their path, but after that, then what? Thus, I concede nothing towards terrorism as a process. It's non-Darwinian. They're just opportunistic thugs, exploiting an ecosystem they can't create or sustain.