Lessons on how to fight terror  A message from the United
Kingdom: Don't torture. Don't shoot boys who throw stones. And
don't imagine for a moment that there is any guarantee of
success.  Topics: Terrorism,  Britain has been fighting wars
against terrorism for most of the years since the end of World
War II. The longest war has been in Ireland; but British troops
have also fought Jewish and Arab terrorists in Palestine, from
1945-47; Greek terrorists in Greece and Cyprus, Arabs in Aden,
Yemen, Oman and Dhofar; Chinese communists in the Malaysian
jungles in the 1950s, and so, almost endlessly, on. We’ve lost
some, we’ve won some. In Ireland — our most publicized grapple
with terror — I think we’ve fought a draw, despite being
incomparably richer, more numerous and better armed than our
opponents.  Here are some of the lessons we have learned:  We
have learned something about wars: They go on for longer and are
more expensive than anyone imagines when they start. No one
could have believed, when the first troo