Manhattan Mid-Afternoon

[Bill Stewart]

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.)