IP: re A difficult problem: Another Jerusalem bomb today

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

> Date: Mon, 01 Oct 2001 08:07:04 -0700
> From: Norman MacLeod <gaelwolf () waypt com>
> Organization: Gaelic Wolf Consulting
>
> Dave --
>
> I think we are finally on our way to try to answer that question, now that 
> there is an international effort under way to cut off terrorist funding, 
> locate and neutralize their personnel, make it hard for them to move 
> around,  and convert their hiding places into dangerous ground for 
> them.  Until now, there really hasn't been a concerted effort to minimize 
> their organizational effectiveness.
>
> I don't think, though, that we are going to be rid of organized 
> international terrorism until society undergoes some very fundamental 
> changes...something that is likely many, many decades away from us.
>
> Until that time, then, we are going to have to develop an international 
> terrorist containment and management operation to discover and neutralize 
> individual operations in the earliest possible stages of their recce and 
> planning processes...and we're going to have to do that everywhere.
>
> Once the immediate threat is contained, we are going to have to go after 
> groups like the IRA, which is heavily funded from within our American 
> borders, the Irish Protestant terrorists, the Basque separatists, Kurdish 
> terrorists, Mugabe's "veterans", ELF, ALF, and many, many more.
>
> Indeed, we are in for a very rough time.
>
> At one time, perhaps the UN could have done this.  However, the UN has 
> reacted to a long line of terrorist actions by displaying a stunning 
> political near-vaccuum.  I don't think they have the "onions" to 
> effectively combat terrorism as an organization today, or at any time in 
> the foreseeable future.  That's a severe disappointment.
>
>    Norm MacLeod
>
>
> David Farber wrote:
>
> > The leverage of ,a maybe very few, radicals with a cause can move nations 
> > and history. How do nations and people react to them is a critical 
> > question. If the direction of nations is dictated by their warped vision, 
> > as is often the historical situation, we are all in for a rough time.  djf
>
>
> --
>
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