Re: [iwar] [fc:You.negotiate.with.your.enemies.with.your.knee.on.his.chest.and.you r.knife.at.his.throat.]

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Subject: Re: [iwar]  [fc:You.negotiate.with.your.enemies.with.your.knee.on.his.chest.and.you r.knife.at.his.throat.]
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You have the right attitude. Other than Dharan-postwar, you have all of
the big incidents of terrorism and it is chilling to say the least.  It
has been that way for years.  Sadly, our civilian leadership was simply
not willing to believe these "tangos" would hit us at home. They
certainly caught us flat footed and unprepared.  The real question is
will the Office of Homeland Security help, or simply muddie the waters
more.  While the latter is likely, we can all home the former is the
outcome.
--- Ross Stapleton-Gray <amicus@well.com> wrote:
> At 10:20 PM 10/18/01 -0700, Fred Cohen (channeling Bob Wills LtCol of
> 
> Marines (Ret)) wrote:
> >My American Perspective.
> >
> >"You negotiate with your enemies with your knee on his chest and
> your 
> >knife at his throat."
> >...
> >1979 U.S. Embassy in Tehran
> >1983  U.S. Marine barracks in Lebanon
> >1988  Pan Am flight 103 blown up over Scotland
> >1988  U.S. Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania destroyed
> >1996  Kobhar Towers in Saudi Arabia blown up by car bomb
> >2000  USS Cole attacked in Yemen
> 
> You've got to intersperse those dates with other events, of course,
> e.g.:
> 
> 1953  U.S.-backed coup deposes Iranian government
> 1980  U.S. provides support to Iraq in its war on Iran
> 1988  USS Vincennes shoots down Iranian Airbus
> 
> and, of course, a raft of issues regarding Israel; whether or not one
> 
> believes that the U.S. should be a strong ally of Israel, one can
> debate 
> the limits, e.g., in looking the other way re nuclear proliferation
> (I'm 
> not sure if to this day there's an official U.S. position on whether
> or not 
> Israel has the bomb... we didn't get too bent out of shape when
> friend 
> Israel flew an airstrike on Iraq's Osirak reactor in 1981, though).
> 
> There's more than one macho-tough dimension to this little policy
> crisis, 
> though.
> 
> Ross
> 
> 


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