A Positive Program

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Sat Sep 22 10:28:42 PDT 2001


Luke Weiger wrote:


>Good point. I should've substituted "prevent" for "deter." There's at
>least one possible way I know that may prevent future terrorism: kill the
>terrorists (although as others have pointed out this is far from a
>certainty).

Israel, which has no compunctions about killing "terrorists," still hasn't stopped "terrorism." Why would the U.S. do any better, especially given the physical and cultural distance.

Doug



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