Dan Michaels wrote:
>
> At 10:54 AM 9/14/01 -0700, you wrote:
> >Dan Michaels wrote:
> >>
> >> Carpet bombing innocent populations/whatever is hardly the answer.
> >> >From what most knowledgable people say, it is only a tiny fraction
> >> of the population who use terrorist tactics, and killing innocents
> >> will only increase that number. Look at what happened in the Sudan
> >> after the cruise missiles went in.
> >
> >For my part, I can see no other effective solution that carpet bombing.
> >What else can we do?  "Surgical strikes" are one solution ... remember
> >Kosovo?  Toppling governments and installing puppets is another
> >solution ... remember Muhammad Reza Pahlavi, Fulgencio Batista, and
> >Ngo Dinh Diem?
> >
> >What other alternatives exist?
> >
> >   -Nick T.
> >
>
> The ones mentioned in the next 2 paragraphs of my msg - after
> the paragraph you included above. I'll repeat the final one:
>
> "Hopefully, people will calmer heads will prevail, and not make the
> world situation even worse than it already is."

Your feelings are understandable, but what do I say when I write or
call or email my Senators and Representatives?  Telling them that I
hope that "calmer heads will prevail" doesn't give them much guidance.

What are your concrete suggestions?  And why?

Regards,
  -Nick T.

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