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I spent 2 years studying terrorism and Stae-sponsored terror campaigns in
college not too long ago.  One of the first facts all my professors
impressed upon me immediately was that a rational person's response to
terrorism is the greatest threat *and* the greatest ally to terrorism.

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On Thu, 13 Sep 2001, G W Adkins wrote:

> > at least partially because it could make the problem of terrorism worse.
> >
> This is the attitude which causes a continuation of the cycle of violence,
> it is predicated on the notion that if you fight back, it results in the
> terrorist striking back again in turn.  This is not an unsound assumption in
> itself, but it leads some people to draw the conclusion that if you don't
> fight back, that the terrorists will respond in the same way and stop
> attacking you.
> 
> Unfortunately, this depends on the Terrorists being rational people, not the
> kind of people who commit suicide by flying commercial airliners into
> crowded skyscrapers.
> 
> Reality is, that elimination of the Terrorists results in cessation of the
> attacks perpetrated by those terrorists.
> Elimination of the groups funding and supporting terrorist attacks results
> in those groups ceasing to fund/support terrorism.
> 
> George
> 
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