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Politics : High Tolerance Plasticity
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To: Think4Yourself who wrote (7782)9/12/2001 9:38:14 PM
From: thestockrider  Read Replies (1) of 23153
 
Could we have fixed the problem after Yemen, or did we need a Pearl Harbor type of event to galvanize popular support? I too am not sure there's enough political support now for what's necessary.

There's a war going on and the US is the target, even if it doesn't seem like a war to some. Some of its manifestations include the attacks on the USS Cole, barracks in Saudi Arabia, embassies in Kenya and that other African nation. There's a whole infrastructure of bases, bank accounts, paper forgers, safe havens and recruiters set up to target the US with a series of these murderous attacks. These terrorists have reached the point where they can carry war to the US homeland. There is no reason to believe they will stop these attacks. We can wait for them to commit more of the same acts. We can wait for them to obtain better delivery systems. We can wait for them to develop deadlier payloads. I am thinking of Winston Churchill's writing:

"Owing to the neglect of our defences and the mishandling of the German problem in the last five years, we seem to be very near the bleak choice between War and Shame. My feeling is that we shall choose Shame, and then have War thrown in a little later, on even more adverse terms than at present."
Winston Churchill in a letter to Lord Moyne, 1938 [Gilbert 1991]
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