Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!yale!decvax!ucbvax!ucbcad!nike!lll-crg!rutgers!caip!clyde!watmath!watnot!watdragon!brkirby From: brkirby@watdragon.UUCP (Bruce Kirby) Newsgroups: talk.politics.misc Subject: Re: Frenchmen getting bombed, why them? Message-ID: <1541@watdragon.UUCP> Date: Thu, 2-Oct-86 16:14:36 EDT Article-I.D.: watdrago.1541 Posted: Thu Oct 2 16:14:36 1986 Date-Received: Sat, 11-Oct-86 08:25:35 EDT References: <7206@sri-spam.ARPA> <1063@ucbcad.BERKELEY.EDU> <15804@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> <1761@princeton.UUCP> <15883@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> Reply-To: brkirby@watdragon.UUCP (Bruce Kirby) Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario Lines: 52 In article <15883@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> tedrick@ernie.Berkeley.EDU.UUCP (Tom Tedrick) writes: >>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. > How are they supposed to "annihilate" the Palestinian people by invading Lebanon? Should they try to solve their problems through genocide? >>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. What? Terrorist attacks are generally the desperate acts of desperate people. Violent reprisals are NOT going to prevent anyone from carrying out a suicide bomb attack. Most terrorists consider themselves at war. They are fewer in number, and better protected, than civilian populations. They can always strike back against any reprisals. > >>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? A lot of them got killed, at the cost of one terrorist who couldn't care less about what Reagan does to Libya as a reprisal. Think about it. The power of the terrorist is that they can exist, and attack from, within our society. They use violence to accomplish political goals. The only way to stop them is to resolve the political situation, lock them up or kill them. You don't kill a half dozen people within a large city by bombing it and giving justification to their political grievances. Bruce Kirby ----------------------- I mean...you want to know if I'm moral enough to join the army, burn women, kids, houses and villages, after being a litterbug? - A. Guthrie ----------------------- CSNET: brkirby@waterloo.csnet UUCP: {decvax|utzoo|ihnp4|allegra}!watmath!watdragon!brkirby