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The Future of Capitalism replies:

I'd be more open to it than in a political corruption or a drug case, but I'm still wary of it. There are non-sting ways within the law to prosecute actual terrorist plots before they kill anyone — charging someone with conspiracy to commit a terrorist attack, or with engaging in financial transactions with designated foreign terrorist organizations, for example — without FBI agents or others going up to innocent, law-abiding, non-terrorist Muslims and suggesting terrorist attacks to them as a kind of test to see if they will participate. And all of that is assuming a law-enforcement approach to counterterrorism in the first place, rather than a war approach, which is a whole other argument.