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Originally posted by Kelkhil:
Good article. He is so right. It is time to fight the terrorist the only way that will work.

Kelkhil

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Originally posted by dreamtrove:
This guy has a point.

I suppose the logical conclusion is that the only way to fight terrorism is to ignore it, and arrest the terrorists as silently as possible as they try to draw attention to themselves. Then we should charge them in regular courts with the most mundane boring things we can. Conspiracy to commit manslaugter, no one care, possession of illegal fire arms, no one cares, and hit them with 37 charges so you can lock them up for a good long while.

Then you never make a headline, life goes on, and no one knows that there are terrorists, or what they want. Then Al Qaeda would be forced to enter the political arena to make their point.

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Another thought experiment: Imagine for a moment that the British government arrested the 23 suspects without fanfare. Imagine that the TSA and its European counterparts didn't engage in pointless airline-security measures like banning liquids. And imagine that the press didn't write about it endlessly, and that the politicians didn't use the event to remind us all how scared we should be. If we'd reacted that way, then the terrorists would have truly failed.

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Exactly. This is exactly what I, for one, have been saying all along (only not so persuasively, it would seem). Bush's and Blair's policies have given terrorists more political klout than they have ever had.

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Originally posted by dreamtrove:
Wow. We agreed on something. All of us.

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They want to increase the terrorists power. It's not too far fetched an idea. Govts. on both sides got a lot of mileage out of the Cold War. Don't say the Soviet Union wasn't amazingly important to the radical militarists in the US and Europe, and that the same wasn't true in reverse on the other side. A giant powerful enemy with a deep seeded hatred of the west could be an enormous asset to those in power over here.

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Absolutely. And when (ahem) certain people run around with their hair on fire screaming "The sky is falling! The sky is falling!" I look at them funny... not because I don't understand the threat, I simply refuse to light my hair on fire too.

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Originally posted by dreamtrove:
This guy has a point.

I suppose the logical conclusion is that the only way to fight terrorism is to ignore it, and arrest the terrorists as silently as possible as they try to draw attention to themselves. Then we should charge them in regular courts with the most mundane boring things we can. Conspiracy to commit manslaugter, no one care, possession of illegal fire arms, no one cares, and hit them with 37 charges so you can lock them up for a good long while.

Then you never make a headline, life goes on, and no one knows that there are terrorists, or what they want. Then Al Qaeda would be forced to enter the political arena to make their point.

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I agree with what you’re saying. Let me know when you get the Muslim states to go along with this, and I'll be on board. Al Qaeda isn't doing what it's doing to impress you or me; they are doing it to impress people in the Middle East. Bin Laden’s goal from the time that he assassinated Azzam and took control of the MAK was to control the Middle East, not the West. Battling the West was just the way he thought he could maintain his imagine and his popularity as a mujahideen.

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Originally posted by dreamtrove:
You make a good point. I don't know that the muslim states have to be on board. If you stop the attacks,

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Al Qaeda isn't doing what it's doing to impress you or me; they are doing it to impress people in the Middle East. Bin Laden’s goal from the time that he assassinated Azzam and took control of the MAK was to control the Middle East, not the West. Battling the West was just the way he thought he could maintain his imagine and his popularity as a mujahideen.

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