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Three Approaches to Terrorists (1985-09-26)
About this film
Three months earlier Shiite terrorists had hijacked a TWA jet and taken it to Beirut, where they held 35 Americans hostage; they eventually executed one of the hostages and released the others only after receiving assurances that Israel would begin releasing detained Shiites. The three experts address this emotional subject with bracing clarity. One sample, from Mr. Jenkins: "Our response to terrorism can't be to match car bomb for car bomb, assassination for assassination, embassy for embassy.... I say that for moral considerations, I say it because of legal considerations, and let me make the argument for practical considerations. That is not the style of warfare where we would have the advantage. Our opponents in that kind of warfare are hard to identify, hard to locate. We have many targets that they can locate. We will have concerns about killing innocent civilian bystanders. They will have no such constraints."
Directors & creators
Southern Educational Communications Association
Subjects
public broadcasting, AAPB, Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr., Middle East, Terrorism
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