Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2003 02:41:27 +0000 From: Andrew Boothman <andrew@cream.org> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> Cc: "f.johan.beisser" <jan@caustic.org>, "Pedro F. Giffuni" <giffunip@yahoo.com>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: WTC Payoff [11 september] (was Re: oh my god the nasa shuttle blewup) Message-ID: <3E4079D7.8040303@cream.org> In-Reply-To: <3E3FA575.92A5B49@mindspring.com> References: <20030204005427.Q63914-100000@pogo.caustic.org> <3E3FA575.92A5B49@mindspring.com>
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Terry Lambert wrote: >"f.johan.beisser" wrote: > > >>uh. no. >> >>the US hasn't chosen to "live with terrorism." >> >>not any more than the Germans did in the 70s, or for that matter, how they >>did in the 40s, after taking over most of France. >> >> > >Respectfully, the Germans really don't have the option of carpet >bombing the country their terrorists come from out of existance, >if they decide that world opinion doesn't matter to them. > >If they had been willing to kill everyone (scortched earth), >they could have avoided the problems in occupied France, as >well (though it would have made another country harder to >invade, what with any country the came into after that >fighting for their lives, rather than just to maintain their >government). > > > > >>Terrorism is not a standup war. anyone who's lived with it at any point in >>their lives knows this. You can't drop bombs on terrorists. You handle >>them the same way you deal with any other extremist group: you arrest >>them, or you kill them. >> >>many european countries learned this lesson years and years ago, and have >>kept special anti-terrorist police forces since then. >> >> > >You *can* bomb terrorists, if you are willing to accept sufficient >collateral damage. It all depends on the level you set for what's >an acceptable amount of collateral damage. > What about the terrorists that are already in your country? Or those living in London, Paris or any other European city? You can't be suggesting that bombing any of these places is a good idea? Sure you can go hunting in places like Afghanistan and other countries where they are hiding. You might even find quite a few of them. But those who are left are more dangerous with their comrades killed then they were when their friends were alive... Andrew. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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