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To: rrufff who wrote (6381)	1/29/2004 9:09:38 AM
From: Dale Baker	Read Replies (1) of 20773

inaction in today's world will not necessarily lead to good results That's the same non sequitur I was referring to - doing "something" somewhere does not negate doing something else more appropriate somewhere else. But you need to strengthen a flawed premise by assuming the alternatives are weaker, without taking them up (ex. the many times we have talked about a concerted campaign against Bin Laden instead of being bogged down in Iraq chasing nothing). The Bush administration continues to lace together Iraq and 9/11 and the war against terrrorism in its rhetoric. I have to admire their propaganda success getting so many people to go rah rah, we are doing SOMETHING. Doesn't make it any less irrelevant, unless you tack on three tangents and five assumptions like Iraq will become a flourishing democracy and defuse all terrorist threats everywhere. Yeah, and I may pitch in next year's World Series if I go out and toss a ball around energetically. But don't count on it. My training to play pro ball would not make much sense or be very effective at all, even if it felt like a righteous crusade.

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