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Subject: Re: [OM] [OT] Terrorism thoughts
From: Tris Schuler <tristanjohn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 10:08:19 -0700

Don't get me wrong. The people behind this cruel attack must be persecuted. But we live in a complex world. Terrorism is a reaction. People don't turn into terrorists if they are not forced into it. To exterminate terrorism, not armies are needed, but the establishment of proper living conditions. It has taken terrorism a long time to develop and it will take a long time to get rid of it. As the world is constructed today, it runs on the exploitation and discrimination of the mayor part of it's population by a minority of wealthy nations. I am afraid that the acts we have seen are the price we have to pay.

Please let me once again express my deepest feelings with the victims. I don't want to justify terrorism and other radical movements, but neither do I accept blind strikes against what some people consider the source of all evil, e.g. certain arabic states and peoples.

I do not believe "blind strikes" and indiscriminate slaughter of innocents are the answer. The problem won't go away through such simplistic (and barbaric) means. The approach needs to be much more closely considered, and inevitably will lead to reactions (in many cases, no doubt) of an entirely more clandestine nature.

Unfortunately, there will remain amongst the community nations certain rogue states which pay no heed to the views of the peaceful majority, and these nation states must be dealt with through more forceful and gross means. So sorry, but the candle of patience just burned out, and if bombing and eventual physical occupation of these socially-resistant lands is what's called for then so be it. No matter what measures prove necessary, we need to steel ourselves to see this through.

As for the rest of it . . . no one ever promised life would be "fair," whatever that means. But nothing can justify this kind of behavior. Nothing. And it needs to be stopped. Now. I only hope America has the sand for it.

Tris


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