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To: zonder who wrote (48886)	10/2/2002 9:40:19 AM
From: aladin	Read Replies (1) of 281500

Zonder, I apologize for venting on you. No you never argued that point, you were just the first post I saw after reading about the UN appeasement. As to the terrorists, the US mainland was hit, but my opinion predates that. A good friend of mine was at the US Embassy in Beruit - it took 3 days to dig him out. A childhood neighbor committed suicide - he and his sister were taken by Japanese terrorists (along with an entire school bus) several were killed, several were raped. We probably don't have the numbers of dead and wounded that ME countries do, but far more than most of the Europeans. The problem I do have with many Europeans (realizing you are not one) is their anti-Americanism. They question our right to do this or that and then have the gall to wonder why we took 2 years to help out in the Balkans - their backyard. Or why we waited before taking on Hitler in WW2. So on the one hand we have no right to intervene, and on the other we have an obligation. Which is it? John

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