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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (388032)	6/3/2008 2:55:46 AM
From: bentway	Read Replies (1) of 1574511

"9/11 happened, and the first concern out of your mind was whether we'll overreact?" No, you didn't remember me correctly. After the stun wore off, my first concern was HOW we'd over-react. I had no doubt that we WOULD over-react. I was as sure of that as the sun rising the next day. Ask yourself this - if it had been an internal, Oklahoma City type group, would we have declared a "war on radical militant right wingnuts"? How would we over-react to as big an event as 9/11? Invade a country that hadn't attacked us and had nothing to do with it, because the perps were hiding in a country (Pakistan) with nukes that we needed at the time (for Afghanistan ops). History has proved my perceptions were entirely correct. We're STILL over-reacting, seven years after the fact. We're swinging our sledge hammer at the gnats, creating collateral damage to America's image and foreign perceptions of it all over the place. The latest example of this is the revelation of our prison ships. This is getting a lot of foreign play, but nothing much here, in our "liberal" media.

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