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Originally Posted by bob_m
i tend to agree with swamp_thing. i find it rather childish not to talk to such
groups. the message should be "we talk to all groups and take their requests
into consideration. if they use terror tactics, then we will be less likely to give
in to their requests."
the problem with this is that you really need to live this and it uses a lot of
time and causes trouble. i still think that it would be worth while, if people
would realize that they don't need to resort to terrorist attacks to be heard.
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There is some kind of intellectual fashion behind what brings European socialist governments and media (except UK who doesn't and France who does) to trade and talk with terrorists instead of trying to prevent their mischieves against the people who elect them. This is very weird. I'd call that the Stockholm syndrome among European politicians. French minister of the Interior debated publicly with an Islamic activist supporting Al Qaeda and whose brother is a terrorist leader of that organization in Egypt. That minister talked very kindly to the Islamist but shouted as hell against the populist french leader of the French National Front. That minister may be the next elected French president after Chirac.
I am also very worried by the cowardice of the Spaniards which shows these people have no democratic beliefs in the way we understand them.
One week before election the right wing party was sure to win and after that revolting bombing the socialist candidate who was trying to desperately use the needed peacekeeping mission in Iraq got votes from the cowards. I am trying to think of another country were this would have been positive for him.