licentious radio

Saturday, March 16, 2002
[10:19:51 PM]

It's not like there have never been terrorists before. Jewish terrorists were killing Romans in Jerusalem 2k years ago. Most every European country had homegrown terrorists in the 70s.

It's a known problem. People who claim they don't understand why terrorists would do such a thing, should either figure it out, or shut up (if they already know and are just making nationalist/tribalist noise).

How do you beat terrorists? In the U. S., we did it with genocide, but that's no longer an option, even for a country like Israel.

There are two remaining approaches. You can do exactly what the terrorists want you to do. This is the Sharon/Bush plan: gladly kill anyone in the general vicinity of a terrorist. It guarantees the next generation of terrorists. As long as you keep it up, the terrorists don't even *have* to do anything.

Or you can go for justice. You do the right thing, live free and brave, put the criminals in jail, and make it so the population -- Palestinians, Arabs/Muslims in general, etc. -- are OK with what you're doing, and reject the terrorists. The population doesn't *really* want to be cannon-fodder for terrorists' powertrips.

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