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At 22:25 12-10-2001, Julie Hotard wrote:<br>
<br>
Thanks, Julie. I have printed your message and only now I had the <br>
oportunity to read it. And yes, the words of the American President
<br>
of the Institute for Space and Security Studies are worth reading.<br>
<br>
They are so clear that I wonder why they are not understood by the<br>
American Government and the war pundits. Is it that the economical <br>
interests they are affiliated to prevent them to understand? Or is it
that<br>
they still live in an old (medieval?) paradigm - like the one of
the<br>
talibans - and are not aware of it? Or both?<br>
<br>
Anyhow, I am sending above again the parts that I found more
interesting.<br>
Those parts are also the ones that, in my opinion, are more related to a
<br>
very interesting point that I found in the link Chris sent to us (see
next <br>
post)<br>
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<br>
Artur<br>
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<blockquote type=cite cite><font face="arial" size=2>The Long and Short
of Terrorism and Security<br>
<br>
by Dr. Robert M. Bowman, Lt. Col., USAF, ret.<br>
<br>
In 1998, I said that if the lies about the causes of terrorism go<br>
unchallenged, then the terror war now unleashed will likely
continue<br>
until it destroys us. We are not the target of terrorists because
we<br>
practice freedom, democracy, and human rights, but because our <br>
government denies these to people in the Third World whose <br>
resources are coveted by our multinational
corporations.</blockquote><br>
<blockquote type=cite cite>(...) all my military experience <br>
and knowledge tells me that retaliation hasn't rid us of the problem
<br>
in the past, and won't this time. If retaliation worked, Israelis would
be <br>
the world's most secure people.</blockquote><br>
<blockquote type=cite cite> (...) The long-term solution is to stop
making new terrorists and render <br>
current ones impotent.<br>
<br>
Only one thing has ever ended a terrorist campaign -- denying the<br>
terrorist organization the support of the larger community it<br>
represents. And the only way to do that is to listen to and
alleviate<br>
the legitimate grievances of the people.<br>
<br>
A massive military retaliation causing the deaths of thousands of Arabs
is <br>
the worst possible thing we could do. It would only guarantee an endless
<br>
supply of fresh terrorists for decades to come. We can have security, or
we<br>
can have revenge. We cannot have both.<br>
<br>
If indeed we can prove the guilt of Osama bin Laden or others, we should
<br>
indict them as common criminals. This would be supported by the
vast <br>
majority of the world's Muslims (..)</font></blockquote><br>
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