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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: Bridge Player who wrote (68913)5/27/2008 11:26:24 PM
From: epicure  Read Replies (2) of 542105
 
They can call for martians to invade on their side too. You have only described their desire- not their means to be an existential threat. Do they wish they had these means, or that others sympathetic to them had them, to be an existential threat? Of course they do. I think we all know that.

You have confused explaining their wish to us, with explaining the means to fulfill that wish.

Even if their call was successful they couldn't destroy the West. At the most they'd be able to launch a few more successful terrorists attacks- which are hardly likely to destroy us, unless we by our reaction choose to destroy ourselves- which would be pretty stupid of us. However, I leave open that possibility- that in reaction to non-existential threats we react stupidly and destroy our own way of life- in that one way we could see an existential threat. We'll have to be on our guard against that.
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