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