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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: Alan Brezin who wrote (128)9/16/2001 11:47:34 PM
From: FaultLine  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
They bloody our nose in a big big way then make a quiet rational appeal to reason which sets us up to look like immature chumps if we react with force.

Even in the face of a such the great escalation this week, I still wonder about the "sucker's bet" problem as discussed here:

"contrary to official statements about the grave danger terrorism poses, most American national security experts and bureaucracies have traditionally paid it scant attention. Terrorism kills fewer Americans than does lightning, they say in private -- which happens to be true -- and overreaction to it is therefore a sucker's move."
foreignaffairs.org

--fl
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