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To: Copperfield who wrote (122330)	12/28/2003 9:34:17 AM
From: jttmab	Read Replies (1) of 281500

Maybe the best move is not to play It would be if that were an option. But both sides have to agree to not play. And I don't see either side picking that option let alone both sides. Inconceivably. Suppose the US decided to "not play". Wouldn't the game continue? You cannot not play. Let's think about tic-tac-toe and global thermonuclear war.... Seemingly trivial, but a good logical thought. Let's drop down to Winning is not possible, only degrees of loss. Is it even possible to control the degrees of loss? In tic-tac-toe there are a limited number of possibilities and well defined. In nuclear conflict, there are many possibilities, but bounded in some fashion, e.g., decimate Indonesia. In biological war, the degrees are unknown and unbounded in discrete steps or borders. jttmab

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