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Politics : Stockman Scott's Political Debate Porch
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To: sylvester80 who wrote (1343)7/3/2002 3:19:12 PM
From: Jim Willie CB  Read Replies (1) of 89467
 
agreed, we dont know how to fight this big threat
our whole society is prone to solving things by taking a fixall pill, reading a pithy book, buying a whizzy device, pushing buttons from afar, building a crippling burokracy, and throwing excess money at it

I believe I read that USForces spent $20M per killed Taliban soldier
this is several orders of magnitude above VietNam

Bush might be playing into their hands, dunno
we have disrupted their financing network considerably
but we havent rendered them defunct
they shift around
we should really track all the world's HONEY movement
that is where Moslems transport money and weapons parts

how do you like the consequences of Clinton's order to remove all Arab-speaking personnel from the CIA and Defense Intell?

honestly, we dont know how to fight these guys
we play by different rules
we have used chemical and biological weapons before
check the French & Indian Wars in the 18thC (smallpox)
check WW1 in Europe (mustard gas)
check VietNam (agent orange)

the real enemy is our arrogance combined with openness
and our tendency to solve problems superficially
at arm's length so as to avoid getting dirty (or killed)
take it easy, good to argue with you
/ jim
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