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...would leave tens of thousands of American troops dead were quickly eliminated after 100 hours of ground fighting.) It may be that the Bin Laden network can be crushed with relative haste. Indeed, other terror groups have been crushed before. Heard about the Red Brigades lately? The Bader Meinhof gang? It'd be foolish to be pollyannish about the coming war but it would be just as myopic to assume the worst...
Terrorism has undergone a sea change since the old days of skyjackings and hostage taking. Back then, the who and the why were known: leftists like the Red Brigades and the Baader-Meinhof gang, nationalists like the I.R.A., the P.L.O. and the Kurdish Workers' Party, and state sponsors like Syria and Iran, all with rational political objectives. In an odd way, the older forms of state-sponsored terror were easier to manage. They were tactical ploys with built-in limits to the damage that could be inflicted if the groups hoped to win hearts and minds to their causes...
...reads and remembers thinks back a bit, to the '70s, say, and recalls not only Munich but also a procession of equally bloody terrorist horrors--airliners hijacked to the desert or to Entebbe, airports blown apart by bombs in Tel Aviv and Rome, the Red Brigades and the Baader-Meinhof gang and all their telegenic stunts. These spectacles occurred outside the U.S., of course. On the other hand, in April 1968, after Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated, it looked as if every city in America was on fire. So much for immunities...
...world of muscular order. The civic-minded gay activism he saw emerging in his later years was too middle class for him, one more sign that vice wasn't what it used to be. Implacable tough guys were more to his taste, the Black Panthers and the terrorist Baader Meinhof Group or the Palestinians, a whole nation of the dispossessed. By instinct he submitted moral problems to an aesthetic judgment. He opposed attempts to humanize French reformatories on the ground that cruel institutions produce great poets...
...killer robot in a hydraulic press and spat out the immortal line: "You're terminated, f---er." In T2 Sarah is a guerrilla gone south, dynamiting computer facilities, threatening to inject drain cleaner into the veins of her captors, stashing weapons with her own righteous version of the Baader-Meinhof Gang. She is a more twisted sister of Sigourney Weaver's Ripley in Aliens (also written and directed by T2's James Cameron), who proves her maternal mettle by blasting a space monster to ugly bits...