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Originally Posted by Lebell
That, I don't know the answer to.
What I do know is that what happened under Carter, Reagan, Bush 1, and Clinton was clearly unacceptable, in that it led up to 9/11 and that I don't see any difference in what Kerry is proposing than what Clinton did.
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Terrorism is a management issue, not an elimination one. I think reasonable folks can agree on this, while disagreeing on the "acceptable" level. But the stated goal of removing all terrorism in a binary "with us/against us" rubric does not do the situation justice. Activities that remove a threat today may create several new ones tomorrow...making that last martyr, just to "end" terrorism...is just going to breed new ones. Security measures must improve, of that i am utterly convinced.
But frankly, while most shipping is unscreened, and new militants are being recruited every day in Iraq...i don't see the situation getting better. Evenually, we must look to the causes, and try to mollify anti-American sentiment. It is possible, with out sacrificing who we are.
America is not an evil empire. We must reform our policies and actions in the Islamic world...but it's not as if we must kowtow to the most extreme branches. We need to make them irrelevant by not providing them with a handy scapegoat.