At 02:59 PM 09/12/2001 -0400, Trei, Peter wrote:

I sincerely hope that the remaining perpetrators of this atrocity are found and punished, but entertain no illusions that doing so will prevent future attacks. That can only come from a shift of US government attitude from "I've got the biggest stick", to one of non-interference. Sweden and Switzerland come to mind as prosperous, modern, western nations which don't have problems with terrorism. Our country should look to such successful terrorism prevention policies as examples.

And even then, Swedish president Palme was assassinated some years ago. (By contrast, some Swiss president died a few years ago, in a public place if I remember the story correctly, and it was a week or so before anybody realized who it was or that their president was missing.)