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> Van: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Verzonden: Tuesday, September 11, 2001 10:00 PM
> Aan: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Onderwerp: Re: Attack
> I have spoken to _four_ professors of International Relations at the
> Kennedy School of Government today who thought that a nuclear response
> would be appropriate, were this an act of state-sponsored terrorism.
Fortunately for the rest of the world, those professors do not run the
country. The fact that a few professors think that nuclear retaliation is
appropriate does not make it right. Quite frankly, I do not believe they
have given much thought to the possible consequences of a nuclear response.
> I _hope_ that no innocent people are killed in our response. But I
> refuse to stand around handcuffed by that fear.
There are other ways of dealing with this, without being "handcuffed by
fear". Find out who is responsible, then go after them. You have your CIA to
find out who is responsible, your diplomats to try and get the terrorists
delivered to the US, and your military in case diplomacy does not help.
Is that not what the Navy SEALS are specialized in -- get in undetected, do
what must be done, then get out before the enemy even realises what hit him?
> Some innocents almost certainly will be killed by any response we make.
It is one thing if a few civilians get killed in a precision attack to
capture the terrorists. It is an entirely different thing if you wipe out
thousands to millions of innocent people to punish a few terrorists.
> Nothing we did caused today's attacks. Nothing possibly could.
Some people somewhere in the world apparently disagreed with you. Once we
capture them, we can ask them what exactly the US did that (in their
opinion) warranted this attack.
Jeroen
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