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juju · 10-17-2001, 02:14 PM

Setting aside the justification for the bombings on the Taliban, let's talk about our goals, and how we are meeting them with the actions that we are taking.

This fanatical army, from what I understand, is a distributed one. Like as in peer to peer and gnutella. Many different cells or 'nodes' operate independently. There is no central server.

So, just as suing one guy in America for sharing files on gnutella isn't going to stop a guy in Russia from sharing files with a guy in Germany -- So bombing an organization in Afganistan isn't going to stop the machinery of terrorism. You're attacking a single node.

If I bomb Earthlink's headquarters, does the internet stop functioning? Of course not! Lots of people are pissed off at us. If you kill the
"leaders", all the pissed off minions are not going to just go home and eat peanut butter and jelly sandwitches.

10-17-2001, 02:14 PM	#50
juju no one of consequence Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: Arkansas Posts: 2,839	Setting aside the justification for the bombings on the Taliban, let's talk about our goals, and how we are meeting them with the actions that we are taking. This fanatical army, from what I understand, is a distributed one. Like as in peer to peer and gnutella. Many different cells or 'nodes' operate independently. There is no central server. So, just as suing one guy in America for sharing files on gnutella isn't going to stop a guy in Russia from sharing files with a guy in Germany -- So bombing an organization in Afganistan isn't going to stop the machinery of terrorism. You're attacking a single node. If I bomb Earthlink's headquarters, does the internet stop functioning? Of course not! Lots of people are pissed off at us. If you kill the "leaders", all the pissed off minions are not going to just go home and eat peanut butter and jelly sandwitches.