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>> well Strawman, it seems that your starting to get some readership... :) though
>> I think they think you're the Liberal government? I think that's what the KindyMedia Editors thought until I
started critizing the Liberal government. Maybe they
started removing my posts because they were just confused? >> strawman informs us:
>> > Remember that the only things that these people understand are force and
>> > terror. Ultimately that is what will cower them. >> I wonder if that's true. I'm not questioning the ability of force to cower
>> people (though the effectiveness of threatening to kill suicide-bombers still
>> doesn't seem obvious to me). The effectiveness of threatening to kill suicide bombers in a way in which they
don't murder civilians in the process is obvious to me. Though I have to agree that "Death to the Suicide Bombers!" wouldn't make a very
rousing war slogan :-). >> I'm wondering if force really is the only thing that terrorists understand? It
>> may be true that terrorists respond to incentives and that they have more than
>> simple murder in their preference set? Yes - the incentive is total control. Murder is a secondary
choice. Other people's freedom is last. >> The U.K. is attempting to use non-violent means with the IRA, The IRA are a bunch of murderous thugs, but their support group (Angry
Catholic Northern Irish) actually want autonomy. Hence peace has a chance. Of course
their idea of autonomy is to impose their barbaric interpretation of a 2000
year-old script on other members of their population, but hey - that is being
done anyway, and they want to do it in their own way. >> Zimbabwe was formed (and white-rule ended) when the government of the
>> day compromised with the terrorists (freedom fighters now... but terrs back then), Surely you mean they gave into the terrorists? Do you support what is happening in
Zimbabwe now? >> De Klerk eventually compromised with the well known terrorist of his day - Nelson
>> Mandella, a compromise situation has been impossed in Serbia to deal with the
>> terrorist group (backed by Osama) called the KLA, many people think compromise
>> should be used in Chechnya with regards to their separatist movement, and I'm
>> happy with the compromise reached by the Indonesians with the terrorist East
>> Timor independence movement. You really are arguing with a strawman here :-) I don't
recall ever writing "Terrorism is Evil". Please follow this link to
read my manifesto on terrorism. >> It seems history is full of instances when terrorists acted rationally out of
>> self interest, and could subsequently be dealt with or at least influenced. I agree completely. >> So, what is it about "these people" that makes them different? They weren't driven by religious zealotry (though
they may have used it as a tool along the way). Thanks for reading.
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