Fighting Terrorism

[David Morris]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28602-2001Sep14.html

A Strike at the Pillars
By George F. Will

[snips:]
In 1967, on the eve of the Six-Day War, Egypt's President Nasser proclaimed: 
"We are confronting Israel and the West as well." Netanyahu says: "The 
soldiers of militant Islam and Pan-Arabism do not hate the West because of 
Israel; they hate Israel because of the West." They hate "Zionism as an 
expression and representation of Western civilization." And they hate 
America because it is the purest expression of modernity -- individualism, 
pluralism, freedom, secularism.

In his 1995 book, "Fighting Terrorism," Netanyahu forecast that Islamic 
fundamentalists would be the "delivery systems" of increasingly lethal 
terrorism. Tuesday they delivered to Manhattan two 198-ton bombs -- fully 
fueled aircraft. When they get nuclear weapons, Netanyahu says, they will 
use them. So U.S. policy must respond to a closing window of opportunity for 
preemption.

That, says Netanyahu, means not going after needles in haystacks but against 
the haystacks -- the states that sustain terrorists. U.S. forces at Midway, 
he says, did not just destroy Japanese planes, they sank their carriers. 
Certain supportive states are the terrorists' carriers. Hitler, notes 
Netanyahu, developed V-2 rockets but not atomic devices. Stupendous American 
determination produced the Manhattan Project. Now more prodigies of 
determination are required. As Oklahoma City was a pinprick compared with 
Tuesday's carnage, the New York and Washington attacks were a minor overture 
to the cymbal-crash crescendo of violence our enemies are building toward.



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