MS> JP> "People are reassured by the mere fact that measures are being
MS> JP> taken,"
MS> Nobody getting on a plane will be "reassured" that they had to go
MS> through a metal detector to get to the gate...not when the plane was
MS> downed anyhow!
Since I just put my son on a plane bound for Philmont Scout Ranch this 
moring, I've done a bit of thinking on this subject in the last few 
days.
The problem we face today with terrorism is similar in one respect to 
the problems we faced years ago with piracy. Terrorism survives because 
certain governments fund it in their interests to support terrorism. The 
Libyan desert is dotted with training camps from a variety of countries. 
Qaddafi has supplied many terrorist organizations over the years simply 
because it destabilized the West. He didn't back off at all until Reagan 
ordered a military action against Libya.
I don't think Reagan went far enough. I am in favor of reducing any 
government that supports terrorism to rubble. Every military base and 
every government building in Libya should have been obliterated. If 
Qaddafi could have been killed in the process, so much the better.
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