On Wed, 12 September 2001, Jim Couch wrote:
>
> My point is, one does not go out and punish the thieves wife, brother, and
> children who had no choice in the matter. I do not propose leaving the 'door
> open.' But killing innocent people will not 'shut the door.' Make no mistake
> Walt, what you are advocating is a TERRORIST act.
> Terrorists target innocent civilians. If we do what you propose, we are no
> better than those who have done this despicable act. I have no problem with
> punishing those who are responsible for this and those who chose to give them
> harbor, but killing more innocent civilians to appease
> our anger is not the answer. It will also not prevent terrorist attacks in
> the future, it is merely trading one atrocity for another. I, too am very
> angry and saddened, but bombing the daylights out of every country we suspect
> is harboring terrorists will not solve a thing. You
> should not only be sorry, but ashamed.
>
> Jim Couch
This is my last post on this subject. Anything more will have to be off list,
and to make it easy, I'm here: hiwayman@xxxxxxxxx.
This was my response OFF LIST to somebody else earlier today:
"I believe that we must counter terrorism by exterminating terrorrists AND
their supporters, families, sympathizers, et al. Obviously, many of them
willingly die for their cause, so killing just the terrorist is not much of a
deterrent. But if it's their children who are going to be killed in
retaliation, maybe they'll think twice before they act. No, I don't want to
just willy-nilly bomb whoever is handy. I want to get the real bad guys and
ALL their friends."
That's my position, and that's all I'm going to say on the List. I'm off for
the afternoon to the range with a friend whose views are the same as mine.
He's printed a dozen Bin Laden pictures to use for targets.
Walt Wayman
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