Misunderstanding terrorism
by Alan Bock
AntiWar.Com
09/03/04
You can undermine groups that practice terrorism in various ways and you can cut the ground from under them by eliminating some of their grievances. You might even be able to marginalize them so much that terrorist acts become routinely counterproductive. But eliminating terrorism from the world is most unlikely. Simple honesty would seem to require acknowledging this. Simple honesty, however, is apparently seldom what practitioners of politics see as a winning strategy...
http://www.antiwar.com/bock/?articleid=3493
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
AntiWar.Com
09/03/04
You can undermine groups that practice terrorism in various ways and you can cut the ground from under them by eliminating some of their grievances. You might even be able to marginalize them so much that terrorist acts become routinely counterproductive. But eliminating terrorism from the world is most unlikely. Simple honesty would seem to require acknowledging this. Simple honesty, however, is apparently seldom what practitioners of politics see as a winning strategy...
http://www.antiwar.com/bock/?articleid=3493
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
Starmail - 3. Sep, 14:44
