What is the moral course

[Wojtek Sokolowski]

At 04:11 PM 9/14/01 -0400, Yoshie wrote:
>>At 08:18 PM 9/13/01 -0400, Yoshie wrote:
>>>If the U.S. government had possessed an "effective
>>>intelligence/information system," however, it could have prevented at
>>  >least the attack on the Pentagon.  Evidently it didn't.
>>
>>They should have learned one from the Israelis.  There is still time.
>>
>>wojtek
>
>Apparently Yitzhak Rabin -- as well as those who died in a pizzeria 
>bombing, etc. -- failed to benefit from the vaunted Israeli expertise.

Yoshie, let's face it.  The Palestinian yahoos that blow themselves in the
public places in Israel are nothing more than pathetic explosive streakers
that cause relatively little damage.  Add to it expertise and coordination
- and you will get the WTC on a sunny Tuesday morning.  Do you really doubt
that killing the brains behind the WTC operation could have saved 5,000
lives?  In that context, stepping on someone's civil rights and due process
is a small price to pay, indeed,

wojtek