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Re: Some other perspectives on the tragedy
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Date: 
Thu, 13 Sep 2001 13:53:38 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Dan Boger writes:
Scott Arthur wrote:
Sure. Create more martyrs. Great Idea. This sounds like the Israeli model to
deal with terrorists. Does it work for them?

Israel has been doing the exact thing the US has been, which is not working - limited responce.  They bomb a street, Israel attacks a command post.  They shoot at a schoolbus, Israel takes out a training camp.  It's the _limiting_ of that responce that makes it ineffective, I believe.

The limiting of the response limits the cost of committing these acts
acceptable.  Make the cost unacceptable, and the people willing to commit
them will decrease, either through their own choices, or by the choices of
their neighbors who don't feel so good about hiding them anymore.

But I'm in no way objective here, I admit.

I'm not either.



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  Re: Some other perspectives on the tragedy
 
(...) Okay. But what part of the fact that they are willing to die for their cause didn't you get? Did you have some other worse punishment in mind? Tuesday's events were not brought on by a few moments passion -- but rather by the dreadful (...) (23 years ago, 13-Sep-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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  Re: Some other perspectives on the tragedy
 
(...) Israel has been doing the exact thing the US has been, which is not working - limited responce. They bomb a street, Israel attacks a command post. They shoot at a schoolbus, Israel takes out a training camp. It's the _limiting_ of that (...) (23 years ago, 13-Sep-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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