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To: gao seng who wrote (33910)	10/18/2001 8:08:03 AM
From: thames_sider	Read Replies (1) of 82486

gao, you're not someone I figured would post an article like that... but I appreciate it. It's pretty much what I said very soon after the attacks - by all means exact vengeance, but also understand the why's and the causes, to stop it happening again... we can try to learn from this horror how to minimize bin Laden's appeal. Or we can be oblivious to the consequences of our conduct and just try to kill not only the current crop of terrorists faster than they can kill us, but the doubtlessly long line of enraged masses who may come into being in the future. This is not an argument for failing to seek decisive victory now. We surely will have to fight a war of extermination against bin Laden's gang and such other sources of current danger as Saddam Hussein's regime in Iraq. But we should be simultaneously trying to understand what words and actions unnecessarily may rally even more people to the anti-American terrorist banner. Nearly perfect. I'd wait for a little (even a lot) more evidence before attacking Iraq - the fact that Saddam cheers on anyone attacking the West is only to be expected, not proof of involvement, he'd cheer on a meteorite if it hit the US - but otherwise, precisely.

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