The rest of the world have been suffering with this sort of thing for
years - and we know that there is no easy answer, in particular an answer
that suggests that killing innocents is acceptable cannot be considered by
any civilised nation.
I understand the anger and the desire to hit back, but this is a time for
accepting that for America all the rules changed yesterday, the Governments
and people of the world will be behind you as long as you act reasonably and
responsibly in handling the situation.
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Wilker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "CF-Community" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2001 11:54 AM
Subject: RE: Communication about the attack
> I think the problem with taking little to no action is that it will put a
> big open season sign on the US. I think many terrorists and "Rogue
nations"
> have been afraid of retaliation from us, and if we do little or nothing
now
> the world will see that it's ok to pull this stuff on the US like it is
> around the rest of the world.
> I think harsh, severe retribution is required to ensure that this doesn't
> happen again. If it is found or decided that Bin Laden is responsible, and
> Afghanistan wants to keep him, then sever military action needs to take
> place. Yes many innocent Afghani's would be killed, but the message needs
to
> be "If I attack America, they will come for me with a vengeance and even
> attack the country harboring me."
>
> I think a third world war would be unlikely, possible, but unlikely.
> Afghanistan would fall quickly to an all out assault, that left them in no
> way capable of fighting back. Sad as it may be, unfair even, they may need
> to be martyrs to the ad campaign that says, "F with America and we will
get
> you, no matter what."
>
> And I'd be 100% OK with that, the thing that scares me is that if we do
> nothing we end up living under constant attacks. we need to assert that
this
> type of behaviors is NOT acceptable and will NOT be tolerated, and if it
> means we gotta kick someone's butt six ways to Sunday well then get the
heck
> out of the way.
>
> J.
>
>
> John Wilker
> Web Applications Consultant
> Macromedia Certified ColdFusion Developer
>
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>
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>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Wayne Putterill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2001 2:55 AM
> To: CF-Community
> Subject: Re: Communication about the attack
>
>
> Believe me, if America dusts off its nuclear weapons the rest of the world
> will not sit by and watch, everything possible would be done to persuade
you
> to back off.
>
> What happened yesterday was truly awful, but similar things (on a smaller
> scale but far more frequently) have been happening worldwide for many
> years - last week there was a bomb thrown at children going to school in
> Ireland for example. America has just had a huge wake-up call, you are not
> immune to terrorism and must now learn to handle it. You are desperately
> hunting around for someone to retaliate against but terrorist
organisations
> do not provide a good target, members are spread out worldwide hidden in
> innocent communities and using sophisticated communication systems to
> protect their identities even from each other. They will have planned for
a
> possible American response and will almost certainly have counter measures
> in place themselves, I don't want to sound alarmist but you have to
realise
> that this is a very different enemy you are facing than any you have met
> before and knee jerk responses will play right into their hands.
>
> Watching the reports yesterday I saw images that shocked me to the core, I
> never want to have to see anything like it again but bombing the crap out
of
> the first available target and risking a third world war is not the
answer.
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Michael Dinowitz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "CF-Community" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2001 10:14 PM
> Subject: Re: Communication about the attack
>
>
> > > The fact is that a palestinian group claimed responsibility for the
act
> > > initially, and then retracted that statement.
> > >
> > > THe fact is that the world community has denounced Israel's actions
> > against
> > > the palestinians as amounting to war crimes, and have labelled the
> country
> > a
> > > racist and apartheid state. When Israel walked out of these talks, the
> > > United States followed.
> > No, the non-aligned governments condemed Israel. Not a single democracy
in
> > the bunch. The slave masters of Sudan condemed Israel, the occupiers of
> > lebanon (syria) condemed israel, the nice little african nation that
says
> > kill all the whites and take the land condemed israel. This is not the
> world
> > community.
> > Now watch as America nukes some country into the stone ages as a
> retaliatory
> > strike and the world dosn't say a thing
>
>
> >but when women and children are
> > killed by the same basic act in Israel the response is "you've got to
hold
> > back". The only answer to terrorism is to kill all the terrorists.
> >
> >
>
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