See, not only terrorists as defined by Brainwashington do evil things, Bush is more than capable of doing evil as well. Look out the window and you’ll see our world is not black and white.

Now, I do agree that finding evil is not as easy as judging it, so you do need as much background information about terrorists as possible. The more you know about them, the easier it will be in the end to catch them. But you don’t need to know more about them to come to the conclusion that they are evil.

Therefor I do not understand why Spielberg is making it a point not to demonize the terrorists in his movie, as he stated in the interview. He could have said that about his Jaws movie, since sharks certainly aren’t trying to be evil. But intentionally taking evil out of the equation, totally distorts the picture.

The problems with the procedure are these:
- Many terrorists think in exactly the same black and white as you stated above, only differing in the names.
- You will _never_ be able to bomb off the surface everyone who might eventually turn out to be a terrorist.
- Provocation of more crime and terror, vicious circle, blah.
- Who defines terrorism?
- Is Washington infallible?
- Where do the British and American undercover agents placing car bombs in Basra and other places fit in?
- Why did Bush’s staff escort evil Bin Laden family out of the country but ignore requests to surrender evil Osama, who has been arrested in various Arabic states after 9/11 and had to be let free again?

I could endlessly continue this list. It is always easy to go with simple answers and not investigate the cause, Mister Underestimatedgerman. We all want to fight crime in the world, but you obviously don’t understand that this our world is not as simple under the surface. people do not kill other people for “uncomplicated issues”, never. Your policy of Good and Evil gives Evil the right to exist.

I agree with Spielberg. He is not the one to fight terrorism or to advertise something or to shut his mouth like a petty bourgeois. It is important to know the motives of terrorists, because if you don’t then you don’t know your own motives.

Have a nice weekend.

That’s why I’m glad that Bush is the President of the United States. The only reason he’s trying to get into the heads of terrorists is to find and kill them. No appeasement, no diplomacy and no negotiations. It’s as simple as it is effective.

Michael Meyn: “Of course there are simple answers regarding good and evil. Here’s one: Good is good and evil is evil!”

Is that you speaking or did you quote a terrorist?

I will abide with whatever your answer is Mr. Misunderestimated.

There was a discussion a while back in Israel that since suicide bombers could not bet deterred by the threat of death, then Israel should start executing the families of suicide bombers.

The next step, of course, would’ve been for entire families to blow themselves up. And the only response left would be for the Israelis to level whole villages…

Anyways, this was a theoretical discussion that did not get too far. But the point is that we cannot stop evil just by blowing up its manifestations, we need to look into the roots of it.

The evil we see in Palestine is related to a pretty nasty evil that took place in Europe in the first half of the XX century and let to the expulsion of the Jews from Europe to Palestine.

And it doesn’t really matter what Spielberg “seemed to be getting at” because my comment referred to a clear statement: “I try not to demonize them.”

Hey, if you want to make a movie about terrorists, portray them as human beings and explain what exactly happened in their lives that they suddenly felt compelled to turn into killers (I’m just guessing here), that’s fine and interesting to probably a lot of people, including me. But don’t sit down in an interview and tell the world that it wasn’t your intention to make the evil guys look evil. That’s Hollywood-Appeasement at its best!

What Mr. Spielberg seemed to be getting at is that we have to look into the nature of evil if we want to combat it successfully. Just dumping bombs on it often has the result of replacing it with another evil.