Home / Business Focus
Thu, Sep 13, 2001 - Page 19 News List

Fortitude is the best weapon against terror

By getting back to selling bonds, or mobile phones, or whatever else we do in the course of a normal day we, in our own small way, pay our respects to the dead and mount our own private resistance against those who killed them

By Matthew Lynn  /  BLOOMBERG , LONDON

In the end, there is no better weapon against terrorism than a quiet, determined fortitude. Terrorists know they cannot win their argument through the ballot box, or on an open battlefield. They try instead to grate upon the nerves of civil society until eventually its will breaks and it is nagged and bullied into submission.

This story has been viewed 2148 times.
TOP top