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Thursday, May 23, 2002

From Larry Anderson over at the just-out-of-the-wrapper Kudzu Acres, lessons learned by a former Cold Warrior who daily faced the Bader-Meinhof Gang:

[...] I learned a couple of things from those experiences. Although we knew who was responsible, including names and faces, and that they would plant more bombs, they succeeded time after time because they had safe havens and the advantage of selecting when and where they would act. I think we will see the same thing happen here in the US. Second, the bombings stopped when the safe havens were removed with the fall of East Germany. As long as the terrorists have a place to hide and time to plan their attacks, they will succeed.

The blame game may be entertaining, but like “Survivor”, it is useless. War on terrorism is everyone’s responsibility and there are no non-combatants.

Cheers.

posted by Terry at 12:13:00 PM

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