Tim, <<< ... think about the dangers of soft targets, militarized smallpox attacks, large crowds in stadiums near airports, locations below large dams, etc.>>>
you are making some incendiary statements that serve no purpose. In fact, you, yourself, share Amy's optimistism wrt our future. In the last sentence of your post, you stated:
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<<<George Bush Jr. will likely _benefit_ from this war, as he plenty of time for the economy to recover and even boom before he faces another election.>>>
From that, I take it you are trying to tell us that the struggle before us will be difficult, and that it may take a full three years to turn the situation around. In the meantime, there are cottage industries that will thrive (e.g., Smith and Wesson, bomb shelter construction companies, HD for supplies so the do-it-yourself shelter constructionists can prepare, and so on).
If that is your position, then I will not take too much offense to what you are trying to tell us. Otherwise, your message is filled with bs and nonsense that does not stand up to any kind of analysis.
First of all, Bin Laden (whatever his name is) with a reported $300M (I doubt he has that much - if he does, than it is all in cash hidden in the mountains of afganistan) can not finance any kind of war.
If you ever managed a large business, you would know that $300M is not going to buy very much.
Bin Laden would have to find a few thousand people who are willing to commit suicide because they hate MacDonalds and "Friends" on TV and then send them to school to learn to fly and obtain other skills that's needed to get along in the modern world - skills that are absent in the Fundamentalist world they live in.
How long can $300M last?
I am being facetious, of course, and the situation is much too serious for me to try to be humorous. But, it is also too serious for you to issue such shallow and incendiary remarks.
Mary |
