Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2001 11:46:04 -0400 From: Technical Information <tech_info@threespace.com> To: FreeBSD Chat <chat@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Helping victims of terror Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20010923113544.02267538@threespace.com> In-Reply-To: <1220300000.1001212050@lobster.originative.co.uk> References: <3BAD1D06.6E56344F@mindspring.com> <NFBBJPHLGLNJEEECOCHAGEDNCEAA.deuce@lordlegacy.org> <3BAC3644.1CB0C626@mindspring.com> <948140000.1001159802@lobster.originative.co.uk> <3BAD1D06.6E56344F@mindspring.com>
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At 10:27 PM 9/22/2001, Paul Richards wrote: > > What if the residents are provably involved, and the country is > > unwilling to permit extradition? > >Then you live with it. Just like the UK lived with the fact that the >Locherbie bombers were resident in Libya. You pursue many avenues to try >and bring them to justice but you don't go declaring war on them. > >It's the attitude that the US has that suggests that the solution is to go >and invade and teach the world a lesson. That's actually not very civilised >at all. Maybe you "live with it" if you don't have the means to prevent it, but that's not the way that the U.S. is going to handle it. Afghanistan has sat idly by providing bin Laden with a comfortable place to plan and launch his cowardly attacks against U.S. citizens, and now that their complicity has landed them at the blunt end of non-negotiable U.S. demands, they want to cry foul. As the old saying goes "Don't provoke a bear in its den." --Chip Morton To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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