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To: cosmicforce who wrote (33782)	10/17/2001 6:03:15 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Read Replies (1) of 82486

This is not a math problem. This is a political and military problem. It may be "morally ambiguous" for you; it is not for me and many millions of other people. Moral ambiguity ended on September 11, 2001. As I said, I don't give a d*n how many uninvolved Afghanis are sprawled on the rocks at the end of this if we accomplish our goal. And you may look at that goal as saving civilization from a retreat back to the 7th century. A message may be sent here: If you choose to aid and shelter criminal terrorists, you WILL pay a price you find totally unacceptable. And that message can be sent regardless of whether Afghanistan meets somebody's arbitrary definition of a "nation" or not. It may be sent whether bin Laden is still in Afghanistan or not. And the question of whether Afghanistan has a civil police force, city hall, public schools and a Congress is simply irrelevant. None of these feudal dictatorships are democracies, you know. Will it look like "an end to terrorism?"* It will if it is prosecuted hard enough and far enough.

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