My dear Amos:
Here is the problem with the analogy you propose about the box cutter. If every time someone with a box cutter, attacked in the manner you propose, won, then you would look for another way of dealing with things. In Israel, every time there is a violent attack, Israel goes in and arial bombs the communities that the attackers come from. It has never worked, and they have not yet come up with an alternative. Now, on the other hand, we have an oppertunity as Americans, who do not have the right to bank in untraceable accounts here in the US, to demand through ecconomic boycott and disinvestment, an end to numbered accounts in Switzerland and the Caimen Islands. Now that would be a huge crimp in the ability to organise the kind of thing that happened on the 11th. However, it would also have the result that American business would have to be conducted more in the open, and the Bush bros. would have harder time hiding their ill gotten gains, for example, so instead of providing real ecconomic fairness, and opening business to the light of day, and ending the ability of varrious organised crime communities to bank in the criminal center of the planet, we are on the verge of a world war, just what the perpitrators of this wanted, no matter who they are. I just think it makes good sence from a chess player point of view, to not do what the other side wants us to do.
Hi Peg!
Cheers
Larry