# How about this method of controlling terrorism?

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**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [October 23, 2006, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-about-this-method-of-controlling-terrorism/377514 "2006-10-23T00:59:29Z")\
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**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\
**Post date:** [October 31, 2006, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-about-this-method-of-controlling-terrorism/377514/23 "2006-10-31T20:00:04Z")

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[QUOTE=RhysLovesCock]  
thats a load of shit  
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And that is not appropriate to a “debate.”

First: contact an Adminstrator about changing your username to something less juvenile.

Second: take the time to actually read and respond to the posts in these threads as though you had something beyond a one-liner remark or a call for mass murder.

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**Author:** ![sqweels](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f19dbf/32.png) [@sqweels](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sqweels)\
**Post date:** [November 1, 2006, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-about-this-method-of-controlling-terrorism/377514/24 "2006-11-01T20:23:16Z")

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Here’s a brief essay deailing what I think our approach should have been after 9/11:

[http://www.squeakywheelsblog.com/meast/monday.html](http://www.squeakywheelsblog.com/meast/monday.html)

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**Author:** ![David\_Simmons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9de053/32.png) [@David\_Simmons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/David_Simmons)\
**Post date:** [November 2, 2006, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-about-this-method-of-controlling-terrorism/377514/25 "2006-11-02T14:12:56Z")

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[QUOTE=Lust4Life]  
Ah but on the other hand think of the emperor Chin , Alexander the Great,Julius Caeser,Genghis Khan and (nominally)Queen Victoria ! 🙂  
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Generally good examples counter to my statement. However, Caesar was killed because his killers thought him too ambitious. Alexander died so young that its hard to know what would have been his fate. By modern standards his empire was pretty small.

Queen Victoria is OK but her empire was assembled bit by bit, by others from relatively primitive societies. Napolean tried to control Europe which consisted of old societies that were just as advanced as that of France.

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