Cohen's strategy is working well in bringing peace to Israel. I have not
heard anybody mention that the group which supposedly claimed
responsibility -- although a spokesman later denied it -- was the same one
whose leader was taken out by an Israeli missle, presumably supplied by
the US.
On Tue, Sep 11, 2001 at 04:46:38AM -1000, Stephen E Philion wrote:
> I was just listening NPR's interview with one Elliot Cohen with the Center
> for Strategic Studies at John Hopkins talking about this event as another
> 'Pearl Harbor', distinguishing this from 'crime', that this is not crime,
> but war, an act of war that the US will have to respond to. He expressed
> the sentiment that we have been too soft on terorrism and especially state
> terrorism. This act would 'require that we're gonna ahve to do things, in
> other words kill people'. He lamented that we 'beat up on some states but
> others (like Iran and Syria) we won't attack.
> The NPR interviewer exclaimed that he feels like he is under atttack.
> Cohen reassured him that altough right now there is a feeling of loss of
> control, but that certainly the US would respond like it did to Pearl
> Harbor and that the attackers would learn tha tthe US can unleash huge
> resources, etc. etc. to deal with the problem....
>
> Even though there is no evidence to date who the parties were, Cohen talks
> confidently about taking care of the Palestinian terrorists, etc. etc...
>
> Steve
>
>
> Stephen Philion
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