threat of attack?

[Jon Ford]

I pretty much agree with Michael on this one. Aside from the terrorist risks 
in heavily Muslim places like Indonesia and the Phillipines,  places like 
Africa,  most European countries, have far more radical Muslims and 
entrenched Al Queada cells than we do, and rather porous borders, compared 
with ours.  Although they have experienced bombings, they have learned to 
live the threat of terrorist activity without turning their countries into 
police-states. America's got to do the same. The  US government has a vested 
interest in making us scared shitless, because they want to get the country 
behind the war effort by whipping up the fears of the "evil ones." This 
seems obvious to me, although I can imagine that people who lost loved ones 
in the W Trade Center disaster would not find it terribly comforting.

Jon





>From: Michael Eisenstadt <michaele@ando.pair.com>
>To: Carolyn Garner Siscoe <globe@zipcon.net>
>CC: austin-ghetto-list@pairlist.net
>Subject: Re: a quibble
>Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2003 17:25:08 -0600
>
>Carolyn Garner Siscoe wrote:
> >
> > I disagree about the threat of new terrorist attacks being overblown.
> > The bombings in Bali and the Philippines indicates that the threats are
> > very much alive.
>
>Carolyn,
>
>Bali is in Indonesia which is predominantly Moslem and
>which has a serious number of fundamentalist Moslem
>terrorist movements. Likewise the Philipines have a
>large Moslem agrieved minority with fundamentalist
>tendancies.
>
>Happily there are no such fundamentalist organizations
>in the US although there may be some quite small
>number of Moslems residing here under cover who are
>bent on suicide. As I understand it some have been
>denounced to the authorities by American Arabs who
>do not share their fundamentalist views.
>
>So it seems (to me) very unlikely that there will
>be future terrorist incidents in this country,
>and if something should happen it will certainly
>be nothing like the destruction of the twin towers
>which was a pure fluke based on the design flaws
>of the buildings.
>
>Mike


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