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To: carranza2 who wrote (11874)	2/14/2006 10:41:12 AM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) of 540724

If it had succeeded, perhaps your thinking might be different. No, it wouldn't. the fact that the operation was planned and thwarted suggests a level of threat which is significant. My quarrel is with those who think the threat is existential. I've argued that issue over and over and all I get back is that, yes, the bad guys could destroy the Library Tower and all its occupants. I can't get anyone to justify how that could reasonably be called existential. So, you're right that I'm ignorant about potential plans they have for such attacks but I disagree that my ignorance matters on what has been framed as a binary question--"9/11 changed everything." Such attacks even in groups, while terrible, are far from existential. "Significant" but not existential. I find the notion that they can knock us out risible. They cannot possibly have the wherewithal to do that, not in the next couple of generations, anyway. So that puts me in the "unserious" category.

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