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From: tedrick@ernie.Berkeley.EDU (Tom Tedrick)
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Subject: Re: Frenchmen getting bombed, why them?
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Date: Thu, 2-Oct-86 02:19:06 EDT
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>Terrorism is not war.

False.

>It is not even remotely like war.

False.

>The Israelis invaded Lebanon in 1982 to crush the PLO, but there are
>still PLO terrorist activities going on in Israel and Europe.

The Israelis made the classical mistake of halting the attack when
the enemy was on his knees and ready to be annihilated. Thus they
threw away the fruits of victory. It would have been more to their
advantage never to have invaded at all then to halt pursuit at the
moment when destruction of the enemy was at hand.

>Terrorism cannot be wiped out by acts of
>violent revenge. It requires political solutions.

False. As long as the terrorists perceive an advantage in terrorist
activity they are likely to pursue terrorism. What is needed is to
create sufficient negative incentives so that the terrorists believe
that terrorism is not to their advantage. This includes security
and reprisal measures, as well as propaganda.

>At least the French, by maintaining a peace-keeping force in Beirut,
>are trying to aid the political process.

What happened to the American "peace-keeping" force in Lebanon?