From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Sep 25 23:49:12 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from femail2.sdc1.sfba.home.com (femail2.sdc1.sfba.home.com [24.0.95.82]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF59437B41C for ; Tue, 25 Sep 2001 23:49:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ATLANTA.threespace.com ([24.21.224.204]) by femail2.sdc1.sfba.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.20 201-229-121-120-20010223) with ESMTP id <20010926064909.YREL1722.femail2.sdc1.sfba.home.com@ATLANTA.threespace.com> for ; Tue, 25 Sep 2001 23:49:09 -0700 Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20010926023654.022caaa8@threespace.com> X-Sender: tech@threespace.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2001 02:42:44 -0400 To: FreeBSD Chat From: Technical Information Subject: Re: Helping victims of terror In-Reply-To: <20010925205128.A70023@lpt.ens.fr> References: <3BB0CA62.B1F189A9@mindspring.com> <3BAC3644.1CB0C626@mindspring.com> <3BAD1FAE.2F3D40F5@mindspring.com> <20010923011557.B60374@jake.akitanet.co.uk> <015e01c143c8$c93505a0$89941bd8@speakeasy.net> <015d01c14519$80553010$3309f540@bigsky> <3BB0CA62.B1F189A9@mindspring.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 02:51 PM 9/25/2001, you wrote: >The rest of the world cares because America's "solution" to the >problem will, likely as not, be to arm some other armed group against >the Taliban (the northern alliance being the most likely candidate), >flood the place with more sophisticated arms and ammunition, and >eventually aim to install some puppet regime there. The catch being >that a puppet regime will last only so long, and meanwhile a >disenchanted population will be growing, another Bin Laden among them, >the difference being that this one is much better armed. Or -- the US >will simply kill so many civilians and trample over so many Islamic >feelings that bin Ladens will arise spontaneously from all over. Even if such a dilemma does exist, I don't see that taking *no* action is an option. If destroying two of the most prominent facilities in America and staggering the global economy into recession wasn't a big enough rush for the surviving conspirators, I can't imagine the rush they'd get if there was no repercussion for it. Sure, it may be a "damned if you do, damned if you don't" scenario for the United States. But if anyone has a better solution to the problem, I'd love to hear it. --Chip Morton To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message