From: John K Clark (jonkc@att.net)
Date: Wed Jun 04 2003 - 22:23:23 MDT
Ramez Naam <mez@apexnano.com> Wrote:
>The Taliban probably new nothing about the 9/11 attack. The training
>facilities in Afghanistan were irrelevant to it.
Then why did the majority (probably all) of the 911 hijackers visit Afghanistan before the big day?
> Friedman is wrong about the role of states in terrorism
Totalitarian states know what's going on inside their borders or they would no be able to do the thing they want above everything else, retain power. If these states are not actively supporting terrorism they do nothing to stop it; the USA has recently shown that behavior of that sort will not contribute to the long term health of your regime.
>The US attack on Iraq has probably increased the number of such
> angry muslim men willing to die if they can take some Americans
> with them.
I'm not impressed, so Muslims are angry, so what else is new? Being angry is what Muslims do, it's the only thing they're good at, it's just a fact of life that has nothing to do with bad behavior by the target of that anger. To put it another way, if you're kind to a terrorist he will not be kind to you.
John K Clark jonkc@att.net
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