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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (204942)	10/5/2006 12:52:19 AM
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The reality is that the mideast is, in many ways, some 400 years behind the Western world… That is a critical insight. I strongly believe that our (the world’s) mindset lags well behind the technological progress that allows us to destroy ourselves. We currently have enough nuclear weapons to incinerate the world a few times over. Individuals have access to simple raw materials to blow up buildings: Timothy McVeigh and AQ. The access to evermore damaging weapons becomes easier and easier. In searching for this quote by Samuel Johnson, I see that it’s being used on the web in the same context that I want to use it here: "The prospect of being hanged in a fortnight concentrates the mind wonderfully.” Living in a MAD world, propelled the politics of the superpowers to find a modus vivendi that allowed a soft ending to the cold war. The bonfire of the vanities that is the ME may force a much more rapid evolution in their political mindsets. One can only hope. Sadly, I’m too cynical to believe that this will happen before the loss of thousands of more lives, as well as a few hundred billion dollars thrown to the wind.

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