IF THE TERROR ATTACK IN BOMBAY WAS REALLY JUST TEN GUYS WITH RADICAL BELIEFS...
WHY WOULD INDIA ATTACK PAKISTAN...? IT MAKES NO SENSE TO EXTRAPOLATE GOVERNMENT INVOLVEMENT IN AREAS OF THE WORLD WHERE POLITICS IS VOLATILE...AND DIVISIONS ARE GREAT...
THE HIDDEN SECRET IS THAT TERROR PREVENTION IS REALLY POLICE WORK...
THERE IS NOTHING THAT CAN BE DONE WHEN SOME GROUP OR A FEW INDIVIDUALS FEEL THAT VIOLENCE IS THEIR ONLY ANSWER...
YOU JUST NEED GOOD POLICE WORK...MAYBE YOU CAN STOP A FEW OF THEM...MAYBE NOT...
YOU WILL NEVER STOP ALL OF THEM...
THE WORLD GOES THROUGH THESE TERRORISM PHASES OCCASIONALLY... USUALLY IT'S AT THE "END OF AN ERA" WHERE ONE GROUP IS OVERREACHING AND ANOTHER FEELS GREATLY OPPRESSED...
THERE WERE THE ANARCHISTS OF THE EARLY 1900'S....
AND THEN THE AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARIES OF THE 1770'S....YES, MANY IN THE ADAMS FAMILY WERE TERRORISTS!
WHAT COULD KING GEORGE DO...? PUT MORE GUARDS IN THE TOWNS...? WATCH FOR SUSPICIOUS ACTIVITY...?
AND RUSSIA BETWEEN 1905 AND 1917 WAS A HOT BED OF RADICAL POLITICS...
BUT ARE WE OVER-REACTING...? I THINK YES!!
THERE WILL ALWAYS BE TERRORISTS...WE CAN NOT PURIFY THE WORLD SO THAT THERE AREN'T...
JUST DO YOUR POLICE WORK...WATCH FOR SUSPICIOUS ACTIONS...MAKE ARRESTS...AND TRY TO SETTLE THE UNDERLYING PROBLEMS THAT ARE CAUSING THE UNREST...
EVERY BOMB THROWER CAN NOT CAUSE 1914 ALL OVER AGAIN...
EVERY ACT OF VIOLENCE CAN NOT BE PEARL HARBOR...
IF "SOMETHING" HAPPENS... CLEAN UP...MAKE ARRESTS...TIGHTEN SECURITY...REPORT IT ON THE NEWS...AND THEN MOVE ON...
OTHERWISE YOU ENCOURAGE "COPY CATS"...WITH OUR 24 HOUR TELEVISION "NEWS CYCLE" WHICH SADLY IS MORE FOR RATINGS AND BREATHLESS HYPE THAN FOR NEWS THESE DAYS! ALA FOX NEWS NETWORK!
OSAMA BECOMES "KING OF THE NEWS CYCLE" IF NOT THE WORLD...
I REALIZE THAT 911 WAS THE MOTHER OF ALL TERROR ACTS...PERHAPS NEVER TO BE REPEATED...BUT HOPEFULLY MOST TERRORIST ACTS WILL NOT BE ON THAT MAGNITUDE.
ARE WE NOT REALLY GIVING THESE SMALL TIME TERRORISTS TOO MUCH POWER... BY MAKING THEIR EVERY ACTION A "CAUSUS BELLI?"
OR INTO A GLOBAL TRANSFORMATIONAL EVENT...?
CLEARLY YES...!
