<br>What are you a freaking parrot?<br><br><br>[color:green]"...or am I a butterfly that's dreaming she's a woman?"</font color=green>

No solution? No surprise. <br><br><br><br>

The Solution is the same as with AIDS. You can't cure them, but you can wear protection and hope not to get infected.<br><br>It is physically impossible to catch all terrorists, so the best that can be done is use intelligence to protect your country. And STOP PROVOKING THEM! Spain has the right idea, leave them alone and hope they will leave you alone. <br><br>They are everywhere in the WORLD. They are NOT in Iraq. What are you gonna do, throw an atomic bomb to wipe out a whole planet. <br><br>A lot of the terrorists are not even part of AlQuaida. They work on their own because they want revange. Revange because their families and loved ones have been killed.<br><br>Let's face it, to make a bomb that will blow up a train compartment or a buss, all you need it to download the recipe off the net, and you can make it with household merchandise. You can do it on your own, no group needed, no AlQuaida needed. <br><br>Look around you and tell me if you know for sure who is a Terrorist and who is not. <br><br>This terrorism BS is just an excuse to invade, steal, and kill. It is not the main reason behind this war, the same way Saddam isn't nor is Binladen. <br><br>Face it, the only terrorists here are the ones sending out their nation's kids for a few gallons of oil.<br><br>_________________________________________<br>http://www.geocities.com/djstefan/bush.gif

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<br><br>Each person is entitled to there opinion, even if does not line with yours.<br><br>

Good! 'Cause that's my opinion.<br><br>[color:green]"...or am I a butterfly that's dreaming she's a woman?"</font color=green>

<blockquote><font size=1>In reply to:</font><hr><p>Spain has the right idea, leave them alone and hope they will leave you alone. <p><hr></blockquote><p>Wishful thinking. Do you really think a bully will let up on you once he smells your fear? Withdrawing in hopes of being left alone only emboldens a bully. The same principle applies to nation states and the conflicts between them, and between nation states and terrorist groups. You are being woefully naive if you think that appeasement will work as a response against a force which is already fundamentally opposed to you.<br><br>max

I think it's a misunderstanding to suppose that Spain in fact has decided not to pursue terrorism. Zapatero has made it clear that that is not the case at all. What he has said is that the invasion of Iraq had nothing to do with al Qaeda. I think he's right. It's true that at this point, because of Mr. Bush's ill-advised, reckless invasion (MHO, of course) al Qaeda has taken on the mantle of "protector" of Iraq from western imperialism. From what I read about the average Iraqui's attitude, al Qaeda does not have that role in their eyes. But while the US and the "coallition" is there, al Qaeda has a ready-made excuse. That's why it's absolutely imperative for the UN to take the lead in the settling of Iraq's political future. That's also what Zapatero has said: he will withdraw Spanish troops from Iraq if and only if the UN has not taken the lead in Iraq. In other words, at this point the most effective anti-terrorism is to de-westernize the political settlement of Iraq, to make it crystal clear that this is not a crusade nor an imposition of the West on the Middle East. That's exactly what Mr. Bush's invasion failed to take into account, and that's exactly what has led to the increasing anti-American stance in so much of the worl. Every time I think about it, I can't believe just how incredibly stupid it was for the US to insist on invading. The damage that the warriors in White House and Pentagon have caused is just incalculable.<br><br>

Guess the answer is somewhere between swinging the big stick and whimpering in the corner...<br><br>[color:red]You slap my back, I'll slap yours!</font color=red>

IMHO the answer is in treating terrorism as a challenge to the legal framework of world order. Again IMHO, you just cannot establish legal principles with a gun and a bomb. It is not a military problem. It is a legal one. No doubt it's a challenge to the legal system of the planet because an effective legal response requires that we treat international legal entities, like the UN, as if there were a real government and not just a paper artifice intentionally made toothless so that the "great powers" could do what they wanted. But that's a different rant <br><br>