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From: brkirby@watdragon.UUCP (Bruce Kirby)
Newsgroups: talk.politics.misc
Subject: Re: Frenchmen getting bombed, why them?
Message-ID: <1558@watdragon.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 7-Oct-86 14:40:49 EDT
Article-I.D.: watdrago.1558
Posted: Tue Oct  7 14:40:49 1986
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Reply-To: brkirby@watdragon.UUCP (Bruce Kirby)
Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario
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In article <117200217@inmet> janw@inmet.UUCP writes:
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>[brkirby@watdragon.UUCP ]
>>What? Terrorist attacks  are  generally  the  desperate  acts  of
>>desperate people. 
>
>Hardly - the attacks require planning,  training  and  financing.
>They  are  ordered  by  smug  and powerful people like Assad or
>Khomeini - not desperate at all.
>
>>Violent reprisals are NOT going to prevent anyone from carrying
>>out a suicide bomb attack.
>
>A few - very few - of the actual terrorists are  suicidal.   Most
>aren't  -  and the people who pull the strings are nothing of the
>sort. Disincentives applied to them have a good chance to work  -
>though of course you won't hear them admit it.

I always find it interesting to see people explain how virtually ALL
terrorist attacks are under the control of people like Assad and Khomeini,
without being able to present ANY evidence to support these claims.

I suppose that Khomeini is responsible for Lebanese Christians that bomb
Paris?  If Khaddafy is so powerful, why has he been unable to carry out his
threats of revenge on the US?

Just because a group of terrorists receive some support from someone, does
not mean that they are controlled by that person.  Unless, you also think
that we should bomb Washington because it controls the Contras.

Maybe we should wipe out Paris.  After all, France is the ONLY country to
ever explicitly admit direct responsibility for a terrorist act...

	Bruce Kirby
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	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?
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