Re: On terrorism - or the lack thereof
I think I agree with some of Robert's "Decoding the message of Sept 11," in that there is a mundane agenda behind the attacks...and if there is, it's certainly in our best interests to understand and address that agenda.
Thank you. That's really the agenda behind my post: I think that it's necessary to understand one's enemy in order to deal with him effectively. I've read too many comforting explanations for 9/11: "They're just jealous", "they're just crazy", "their religion is crazy", "they just hate Americans"...ad nauseum, explanations that explain nothing. And I think it's dangerous for us to bury our heads in the sand with simplistic explanations that stroke our own egos the way most of those do. We'll never effectively fight an enemy we refuse to understand.
--Robert