The best way to eradicate all terrorists is simply to drain their financial resources. This would have a global support and and no human life would be sacrificed. Imagine if Osama Ben ladin would wake up and find out that he has $0 left. He wouldn't be able to finance any of his efforts. This would expose him and all of his followers where they could be captured and brought to justice (chaining to a building and firing a rocket comes to mind). arman ----- Original Message ----- From: "Roeland Meyer" <rmeyer@mhsc.com> To: "'Vadim Antonov'" <avg@exigengroup.com>; "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@research.att.com>
|> From: Vadim Antonov [mailto:avg@exigengroup.com] |> Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2001 2:11 PM |> |> The problem isn't terrorists - people with lunatic worldview |> will always |> exist, and there's no way to prevent that. The problem is |> governments |> which refuse to cooperate in eradicating them because they |> futher their |> goals while leaving their hands "clean". And may I to |> remind the truism |> that any government can govern only because it has support of a |> significant part of (maybe, brainwashed) population? |> |> As for civil liberties - reality check time.
|> Those are people who _believe_ that Western civilization is |> evil and has |> to be destroyed by any means, including suicide. Those |> aren't isolated |> "crazies". Their mothers and neighbours are proud of what |> they did, and this is scary.
Does anyone remember all those hijacking of the mid'70's? Does anyone realize why they stopped? Terrorist groups are like weeds. They grow over time. One has to regulary whack the weeds. We no longer have the weed whackers.