Unfotunatly violent people only understand violence.
Except for a few minor strikes, we have done nothing but mostly appease Osama Bin Laden and other groups of terrorists.  This strategy never has and never will work.
If you want to know what works, look at the Libyan example.
We have not heard much from Qadaffi since the day we bombed the hell out of him.
Ignoring this attack will only invite more attacks, which will be more severe.
The way to deal with killers is to kill them.  That is Biblical.

jm
>
> From: John Dunlop <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: 2001/09/14 Fri PM 03:22:49 EDT
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: [HP3000-L] Violence begets violence.
>
> Hello all,
>
> While I have every sympathy for everyone who has lost family, loved
> ones and friends as a result of this appalling atrocity, my heart
> quails when I read all the warmongering, revengeful, killing rhetoric
> expressed on this list. Thank God for a few voices of sanity, namely
> Bruce Toback and Steve Dirickson who attempt to apply some perspective
> to the hysterical reactions expressed by several people. Is this
> really the best reaction from a mainly Christian society? Yes, it was
> a horrific attack perpertrated at the heart of America but does anyone
> ever stop to ask WHY? Surely this "revenge" will serve to merely
> perpetuate the problem. You kill their families, they kill yours and
> so on. How can it ever be stopped? Surely it is not weakness to show
> restraint? Violence breeds violence. We need LESS killing in the
> world, not more.
>
> Just my $.02.
>
> Cheers,
>
> John Dunlop
>
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