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Politics : Impeach George W. Bush
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To: jttmab who wrote (8401)12/9/2001 11:42:29 PM
From: Lazarus_Long  Read Replies (1) of 93284
 
I've spotted a flaw in your thinking on this terrorist matter. You've stated repeatedly that nothing can be done to dissuade a terrorist who is willing to die for his cause, hence the US effort in Afghanistan is useless.

But did you notice that OBL and his mullah were not in those hijacked planes? That in fact they are hiding in caves trying to avoid the fate the US has planned for them?

Maybe you don't need to dissuade those terrorist; maybe it will be quite adequate to dissuade those who brainwash and finance them- -with the knowledge that their actions will lead to their certain deaths.

Now: physics Nobels? I'd say their a pretty good representation of the state of science in a nation and a civilization. It took a LOT more than 50 people to put those 50 there- -and you know it. You know quite well that while Einstein derived E=mc^2, he had nothing to do with the development of the atomic bomb except to help persuade Roosevelt it was possible. It was the efforts of industries and tens of thousands of other scientists and technicians that led to that explosion. The fact that a country can garner so many Nobels IS indicative of its scientific prowess.

Physics? Physics is the most basic of the sciences, in some sense the mother of the rest (except mathematics, if you wish to call that a science.

Surely you are not going argue that it's coincidental that (my estimate) 95+% of Nobels in the sciences go to countries with Western cultures? You think this is statistical accident?

I've got your link bookmarked; I haven't gone through it yet. If your point is that the Reagan administration argued voodoo economics, tell me something I didn't know.

And when all is said and done, Reagan, whether accidentally or intentionally, did one thing right that, in my opinion, justifies all the rest: he found a way - Star Wars - of forcing the USSR to pit its weakest point - its economy - against our strongest - our economy. We could - and did, as history shows - afford to rev up our economy for that effort. They tried and their engine burnt out.
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