The hijackers in the planes will not have used these systems but their support base of neglected Palestinians, Kurts and other group that are now productive recruting groups would have a letout for their needs and thus the terrorist support base would be alot smaller. Lets face it, these people feel neglected and mistreated by the western world, this is a given situation, we can not change it afterwards. Only adresse this and give these people renewed hope and a feeling theat their opinions are heard and taking into consideration will be the final solution to arab terrorism. And I'm not taking about the people in the terrorist camps but the larger people in the refugee camps who has almost nothing and are waiting for many many years for an improvement. The last is the power base of the fanatica terrorists. Attack, ohh sorry, adres this ! I must say that the new US pressure on Arafat and Sharon is a good first step. This conflict must be solved or a new attack in the future must be expected. Afganistan, people first priority there is food and shelter, opposition to Taliban is not on their minds for the first points are more pressing. Improve on this and peope will demand freedom and eventually move to oppose autocratic governments. Compare this to the Maslov theory. And compare this to the PLO, the quiet time started when this organisation was taken seriously and now Arafat is acting more like a responsible statesmans than a terrorist group leader he was many years back,
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<br>Yes I know this is hard to swallow, and easiest way would be to stand firm and kill as many "terrorist" as possible but Israel did this and it has proven not to work. So the question now is :"Do we want satisfaction or results ?"
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<br>We call ourselfs the civilized world and place ourselfs on a higher moral ground, this implies a balanced approach with tough choices. Sadly we can't decide who we negociated with, even though we want too, it is the people on the other side who do. This is something we have to accept.
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<br>Wouter
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