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25 October 2002  

Stopping Terrorism at the Source

With 9/11, the Bali bombing, Washington sniper, and Moscow theater situation all linked to Islamism, Casey Fahy ponders on what makes it possible and how to stop it:

Ideas like radical, violent Islam are funded by either nations or by fat-cat individuals who can afford to sit back and fritter money away on sociopathic nihilistic titillations...

How does one dry up these princely springs of financial support for the princely class of Islamic terrorism? Bin Laden himself is such a blue-blood.

Can we focus on literal inoculation against the biowarfare attacks sure to come, as Al Gore has recently suggested? Can we rely on airport strip-searches of Strom Thurmond's grandmother? Can we count on inspections after North Korea's failed guarantees of just that? Can we rest back on diplomacy?

It seems to me, with the possibilities recently presented, snipers, opera house commandeering, vacation resort bombing, that none of these literal band-aid solutions will work. It's like watching a body injured over and over again by the same weapon and saying we have to figure out better ways to staunch the blood and stitch the wounds. We have to stop the weapon, and those who are swinging it....The nations and the power structures that protect the benefactors and godfathers of the ideological jihad of radical Islam must be ended. Decisively.

09:58 AM |

Hello Goodbye, Part II

Arts & Letters Daily returns.

09:46 AM |