Excuse---looks like touching the wrong button (TAB) sends the message.

Let's start again:

Looks to me that terorism has already achieved things---with help from our friendly administration--

The Terrorist Aim                        The Administration Policy
Put Fear into the Public and get       Get on the Media with constant
Media Coverage                         Alerts

Disrupt the Economy                      Make regions pay for the
                                          constant alerts
Do actual damage and cause             Disregard early reports in
mayhem                                  2001 and over react for
                                           political motives later.


Let us face it--we are living in a different time now. We were the Guerrilas against the British Redcoats. This is, as then, a new type of battle. Now we are the Redcoats and have to respond not with political ploys but with the lower tech things that can preclude an attack and also use the high tech to ferret out the people who are the ununiformed guerrilas of today. But we have to do it for the proper reasons---not to cry "wolf" for political "hay". We all know what happened to the boy who cried "wolf" too often.

Bill Hahn