> -----Original Message-----
> From: James B. Byrne [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 04, 2002 2:26 PM
> To: Chuck Ryan
> Cc: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: RE: OT: Re: How To Stop Suicide Terrorists...
>
>
> On 4 Jun 2002 at 11:08, Chuck Ryan wrote:
>
> > These "criminals" are funded by government's hostile to the US. If
> > someone hires a person to kill me, am I not justified in going after
> > the employer as well as the employee?
>
> Not with a gun, or a bomb.  This is the distinction between crime and
> war.  The former must be dealt with by due process or the social
> conventions that support peaceful resolution of conflicting desires
> are undermined.  You can see what results when this happens by
> surveying the histories of any number of current African
> countries, or
> European ones for that matter.
>

/sarcasm on

So, a foreign government arms a pays a third party to attack and kill
civilians in my country and in response my country must limit itself to
diplomacy. Well, I am sure that will prevent them from repeating the attack.
After all, we get thousands of people dead, 2 buildings destroyed and
billions of dollars worth of damage to our economy and they get a good
talking too.

Sounds fair to me.

/sarcasm off

One thing I think history has proven is that you cannot talk to fanatics,
particularly religous fanatics, they do not listen and will do anything for
their cause.

They have publicly declared us the enemy and now they have attacked.

Sounds like war to me.

Comments are my own, not my employer's... etc.

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