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To: JohnM who wrote (1979)	10/2/2001 10:12:59 AM
From: MSI	Read Replies (3) of 281500

Great Halberstam interview, esp comments on the media, the news these days being "essentially cartoons". The problem is the unspoken assumption that everyone makes, including Halberstam, that the US can afford to be responsible for the prosperity and well-being of the entire world. It's an attractive conceit but obviously wrong. Apparently there is no similarly articulate spokesman for another POV: why don't we get the hell out of the murderous Middle East? It seems by attempting to intervene we get our homeland bombed, and maybe worse. It's time we learned our lesson. Everyone seems to want another WWII. This is wrong. As enjoyable as it obviously is to speculate on the endless ways to put pieces of broken civilizations together, might it be that we are actually causing the problems by supporting combat? Imagine if we had not intervened in the Afghan-Russian war. Or the Gulf war. Dealing with high oil prices is a bit easier than dealing with destroyed American cities and dead civilians. Once you support any of the death-bound factions you incur the wrath of the others. Who benefits? Only suppliers of commentary and combat gear. Pundits and punishment freaks. Definition of "bring them to Justice": get some Bin Laden/Hussein type individuals, with their concocted stories of malice, either killed or on trial, declare victory, and leave the area to themselves. Can we prevent the horrible atrocities and starvation now going on? Obviously the American public will spend some treasury and human resources to do so if we could. But not at the expense of killing our own innocent citizens in their offices. That kind of suicide is too similar to what brought down the WTC

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