" (Pillar, 2001) The reason for this according to Pillar is due to the "heavy legal requirements to make sure the designations stand up in court." (Pillar, 2001) Pillars recommends removing "the legal impediments from any formal U.S. list of terrorists groups." Also recommended is the retention of tools such as "freezing of financial assets". .

             Pillars states when the report is received concerning the 'patterns' of terrorist attacks and reporting where the terrorists are located in relation to their living and working locations that: "it is clear that the United States needs not just a little, but a lot of help from its friends, and not just from the people we traditionally think of as friends, but from many other countries around the world." (Pillar, 2001) Pillars holds that the United States doesn't have the "access or the resources or the authorities to do the jot itself." Pillars states that "the biggest counter-terrorist weapon that the United States has, at least as big as the security countermeasures. is a healthy set of foreign relationships." (Pillar, 2001).

             THE U.S SHOULD ACKNOWLEDGE REALISTIC GOALS.

             In the work entitled: "Terrorism and U.S. Foreign Policy" Ron R. Pillars states that terrorism cannot be completely eradicated but it can be to some degree 'controlled' or 'contained'. Pillars doesn't believe that the present policy which doesn't allow for deals or the 'no-deal' policy of the United States will be effective in coping with the terrorists or their networks. Pillar points out that attacks have become more lethal in terms of the number killed per attack. .

             The attacks, according to Pillars are: "result of. unsettled conflicts as well as a complication in trying to settle them." (Pillars, 2001) One problem as related by Pillars is the fact that the groups of terrorists are comprised of so "many different groups, with the groups of concern constantly changing, waxing and waning, emerging and dying, merging with each other and separating.