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From: jrw@princeton.UUCP (Jeffrey Westbrook)
Newsgroups: talk.politics.misc
Subject: Re: Frenchmen getting bombed, why them?
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Date: Mon, 29-Sep-86 22:54:06 EDT
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In article <15804@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> tedrick@ernie.Berkeley.EDU.UUCP (Tom Tedrick) writes:
>
>. . . War is war whatever excuses
>you make for one side and whatever bad things you accuse the
>other side of. If the Muslims aren't smart enough to stop waging
>war against Europe and the United States they will provoke more
>and more violent reaction until one side or the other gives in.
>I guarantee you it won't be the west, although the fight may
>be extremely destructive.

Terrorism is not war. It is not even remotely like war. The West could
destroy all of Moslem Beirut, but as long as a few people with a grievance
and a bomb existed, there would be terrorism. The Israelis invaded Lebanon
in 1982 to crush the PLO, but there are still PLO terrorist activities
going on in Israel and Europe. Terrorism cannot be wiped out by acts of
violent revenge. It requires political solutions. At least the French, by
maintaining a peace-keeping force in Beirut, are trying to aid the political
process.

J Westbrook