16 Jan
2005
16 Jan
'05
2:04 p.m.
At 10:32 AM 1/16/05 -0800, James A. Donald wrote:
Terrorists, as we discovered in Afghanistan, tend to piss people off. They need a government that is strong enough to intimidate the locals to refrain from killing them.
Since when did a few remote Al Q boot camps piss people off? Religion-based initiation of force pisses people off, just as the Xian right will discover should it start beating women in the streets. Don't confuse the govt (eg Taliban, a faith-based organization) with NGOs which may attract cruise missiles, but not hostility from the populace, who probably enjoyed the extra commerce.