UNDECLARED WWIII

freeman.org ^ | APRIL 2004 | Haim Harari

[Dominic Harr]

Dang.

Just a fabulous read. Really great. Truly.

[paltz]

But the real fear comes from the undisputed fact that no defense and no preventive measures can succeed against a determined suicide murderer. This has not yet penetrated the thinking of the Western World. The U.S. and Europe are constantly improving their defense against the last murder, not the next one. We may arrange for the best airport security in the world. But if you want to murder by suicide, you do not have to board a plane in order to explode yourself and kill many people. Who could stop a suicide murder in the midst of the crowded line waiting to be checked by the airport metal detector? How about the lines to the check-in counters in a busy travel period? Put a metal detector in front of every train station in Spain and the terrorists will get the buses. Protect the buses and they will explode in movie theaters, concert halls, supermarkets, shopping malls, schools and hospitals. Put guards in front of every concert hall and there will always be a line of people to be checked by the guards and this line will be the target, not to speak of killing the guards themselves. You can somewhat reduce your vulnerability by preventive and defensive measures and by strict border controls but not eliminate it and definitely not in the war in a defensive way. And it is a war!

Don't Worry!!!!!... We'll be safe as long as they arre making us take off our shoes, give up our water bottles and coffee, and take out our laptops into plastic boxes to be x-rayed. There... feel better everyone?

[Dominic Harr]

I don't see how most suicide bombers can be stopped.

Actually, tho -- if this is the worst the war gets, we're getting off so easy it's a joke.

We lost 6000 dead, 20000 wounded in one month's fighting on Iwo Jima.

This attack is only a PR win. Militarily, suicide is useless. The japanese were the ones who pioneered the suicide run. Kamikazis.

And that strategy turned out to be a failure, for strategic reasons.

And it will again. They'll never win a battle, or take a country, with suicide bombers.

[Hound of the Baskervilles]

Thank you for this post.

[Hound of the Baskervilles]

"And it will again. They'll never win a battle, or take a country, with suicide bombers."

Yes that's true.

[Petronski]

He must have slept though III.

Nope. That was the Cold War.

[paltz]

ping!

[Danae]

BTTT

[GOPJ]

Is the solution a democratic Arab world? If by democracy we mean free elections but also free press, free speech, a functioning judicial system, civil liberties, equality to women, free international travel, exposure to international media and ideas, laws against racial incitement and against defamation, and avoidance of lawless behavior regarding hospitals, places of worship and children, then yes, democracy is the solution. If democracy is just free elections, it is likely that the most fanatic regime will be elected, the one whose incitement and fabrications are the most inflammatory. We have seen it already in Algeria and, to a certain extent, in Turkey. It will happen again, if the ground is not prepared very carefully.

Best read of the year!!!

[GOPJ]

Is the solution a democratic Arab world? If by democracy we mean free elections but also free press, free speech, a functioning judicial system, civil liberties, equality to women, free international travel, exposure to international media and ideas, laws against racial incitement and against defamation, and avoidance of lawless behavior regarding hospitals, places of worship and children, then yes, democracy is the solution.

If democracy is just free elections, it is likely that the most fanatic regime will be elected, the one whose incitement and fabrications are the most inflammatory. We have seen it already in Algeria and, to a certain extent, in Turkey. It will happen again, if the ground is not prepared very carefully.

Ping

[Watery Tart]

[GOPJ]

ping

[nuconvert]

Thanks for the ping!

[nuconvert]

"The outer circle cannot be eliminated by force. Here we need financial starvation of the organizing elite"

I think the 3rd circle requires both force and financial starvation.

[nuconvert]

Good read

[milford421]

Thanks for the ping on this article.

[FreedomPoster]

Read later bump.

[Velveeta]

Excellent, thank you.

[paltz]

An incredible number of people in the Arab world believe that September 11 never happened, or was an American provocation or, even better, a Jewish plot.

You don't even need to go as far as the middle east to find this thinking

[BJClinton]

...in a Moslem area, which developed conquered, at some point in history, one of the most advanced cultures in the world.

There, fixed it.