So what is the good way?
The people who commit these aren't going to talk peace with us.
Lets assume it was Bin Ladden. He isn't going to go into peace talks with
the US. Why would he. We don't know where he is. So we can't go get him.
He isn't going to stop until either the US stops backing Israel. And he may
not stop then.
At 07:26 PM 9/11/2001 -0700, you wrote:
>At 10:23 PM 9/11/2001 -0400, you wrote:
>
> >Bottom line is -- we're not safe until the terrorists are dead. They're
> >basically homocidal maniacs (often religious homocidal maniacs) on a much
> >larger scale. And as long as they're free, they'll keep on killing.
>
>But does that in itself justify killing a bunch of people?
>
>Some things are more important than our immediate safety. It is in our
>immediate interest to kill all terrorists, but that will only prove the
>ideals of the terrorists to future terrorists. It is safer for us to kill
>all the terrorists until there are too many to kill. In is in our long term
>interests to locate the individuals responsible, giving them a trial in an
>unbiased jurisdiction, and eliminating them individually. Otherwise we
>perpetuate the reason for this action.
>
>There is no easy solution, but proving the beliefs of the terrorists will
>only make the overall picture worse. If we stoop to their level we lose. If
>we handle this in a good way, we prove the terrorists wrong and that will
>do more to eliminating behavior like this than killing al of the terrorists.
>
>We need to understand the information war and use that to our advantage.
>
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