Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site usl.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!akgub!usl!jla From: jla@usl.UUCP (Joe Arceneaux) Newsgroups: net.followup Subject: Re: Terrorism and TWA 847 Message-ID: <574@usl.UUCP> Date: Tue, 25-Jun-85 18:47:43 EDT Article-I.D.: usl.574 Posted: Tue Jun 25 18:47:43 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 27-Jun-85 06:23:31 EDT References: <600003@ur-univax.UUCP> Reply-To: jla@usl.UUCP (Joe Arceneaux) Organization: University of (SW) Louisiana Lines: 35 Summary: In article <600003@ur-univax.UUCP> stro@ur-univax.UUCP writes: > What do other people out there think about the latest act of terrorism - > the hijacking (and kidnapping of the passengers) of TWA 847? What should > be done? What can be done? >... > the wworlds attention to their plight. Commiting ANY crime for these > reasons ( or any reason) should not be tolerated - especially when people's > lives have been threatened. Terrorists have come to know that if they > threaten people's lives they can bargain with governments to get what they > want. This only leads to more and more terrorism. I believe Turkey is one I agree in general with your attitude, however I'm not so sure about how I would *really* feel if friends or relatives were on the plane. I suggest that rather than going in to try to kill the terrorists and quite probably kill many hostages, we should take a few of the Shi'ite prisoners whose release has been asked for, and threaten to KILL THEM unless the hostages were released. Preferably this could have been done out on the airport tarmac for all to see. After all, there are ~700 Shi'ite. This strategy seems more likely to be successful than a more direct approach. > The best solution would be, of course, to stop it at its root. Insted of > ... > they want us out of there. And why do we stay? what's so special about > Lebanon? Why can't America just leave some countries alone? It's in our I agree that our activities in some countries is highly unethical. However, another approach to stopping the problem near the root would be (assuming that we had a highly effective intelligence organization) to destroy the terrorist organizations covertly. I'm not sure I agree with this strategy, but it might well be effective. -- Joe Arceneaux Lafayette, LA {akgua, ut-sally}!usl!jla