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Re: Rooting out nests of snakes and destroying them
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Thu, 13 Sep 2001 18:24:34 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Lindsay Frederick Braun writes:
  But now the picture is far more complicated.  If we climb
  down now and change our foreign policy suddenly, won't this
  send the tacit signal that terrorism is the best way to get
  what you want?

I know what you're saying but I find little comfort in our government's
statements, filled with machismo and bravado, yet thin on addressing the
core of the issue. We'll send an even worse signal by resorting to war and
saying "America will do as it pleases now that the blood of it's people has
been spilled." So, for heaven's sake, let's go after the guilty as we said
and make no martyrs out of the innocent. After the perpetrators and
collaborators have been apprehended and subdued, we should seriously address
where our government's failures were with regard it's contribution to
frustration and hatred in much of the Arab world. As terrible and senseless
as things have been, they happened for a reason.

Dan



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  Re: Rooting out nests of snakes and destroying them
 
(...) Who exactly is saying that? (...) Yes, we should seriously address our meddling and intervention and supporting the wrong sides (or any side of a no good guy conflict). But not now. Now is not the time. Now is the time for disease treatment. (...) (23 years ago, 13-Sep-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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  Re: Rooting out nests of snakes and destroying them
 
(...) But now the picture is far more complicated. If we climb down now and change our foreign policy suddenly, won't this send the tacit signal that terrorism is the best way to get what you want? For now, I agree with Larry. Find the nests of (...) (23 years ago, 13-Sep-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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