[lit-ideas] Re: Max Boot and Anger
- From: "Simon Ward" <sedward@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2007 10:19:05 -0000
I know the taste.
Here's my concern: by assuming a 'death is the only solution' approach, the
US is creating more enemies than it is killing. Sure if a terrorist cell is
discovered in their trucks on the way to the market place, then drastic
action might be necessary, but vaporising first and asking questions later
is not the apporach. Until that last moment, the pursuit of terrorism is a
police matter and when the terrorists are located in another country, it is
the job of diplomacy to mobilise the appropriate force.
If the UK had assumed your approach against the IRA, we'd have invaded Eire,
shelled Belfast, and possibly sent an SAS squad into New York to sort out
Noraid. If any of that had happened and been unsuccessful, we'd still be
fighting now against an IRA many times the size of what it was in the
seventies.
Suicide bombers want to die; why do it for them.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Eric Yost" <eyost1132@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2007 2:23 AM
Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Max Boot and Anger
>>By inference, it seems you'd advocate vaporisation (or
just plain death) for anyone found guilty of using terrorist methodology,
anyone about to use terrorist methodology or anyone planning to.
Please read my posts again. You are quite welcome to use straw men, just
don't make me into one. The taste of hay gets old quickly.
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