1.   But in Israel and in Spain, where Basque extremists have been staging attacks for decades, terrorism has had no effect on the economy.

2.   But security officials summoned Israeli reporters who write about military matters and told them that terrorism had no military solution.

3.   But terrorism also had the effect of bringing the nation together to a degree not seen since World War II.

4.   Clinton confidently declared in his Belfast speech that terrorism has had its day.

5.   History shows that terrorism more often than not has little political impact, and that when it has an effect it is often the opposite of the one desired.

6.   If we track bin Laden down and destroy his network, will future terrorism have chemical or biological or radiological weapons?

7.   In general, the tone was that terrorism had to be stopped, whatever it took.

8.   Terrorism has a cost beyond its menace to life and peace.

9.   Terrorism has a long patrimony as a weapon used by the desperate against the innocent.

10.   Thus, however gruesome the calculus is, preventing terrorism has wide benefits.