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Politics : America Under Siege: The End of Innocence -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lola who wrote (97)	9/11/2001 7:28:12 PM
From: George Papadopoulos	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 27666

>War begets war ... unfortunately that's the only way we have been able to stay on top of things. War begets war...unfortunately that's the only way we have been able to keep the miltary-industrial complex spending the biggest proportion of our hardearned dollars. With imminent forceful response, all we are guaranteeing is more war, more losses of innocent lifes and the military guys having their cakes with an endless supply of cherries on top. >Maybe one day our children will find the solutions to the problems we can't seem to solve without violence. I hope so Lola. One thing we must learn how to do is look deep within ourselves and determine the causes of why things happen. If we blindly bomb again all we are doing is perpetuating the cycle of violence. If we can do something to address the causes of terrorism with some effective military response (hey I would love to bring Osama back and hang him by a New York bridge) I am all for it. But If we just go and obliterate other people without addressing the root causes of this problem (which is our foreign policy) all we are doing is putting in danger ourselves and our kids again sometime in the future. I know this sounds cruel but I call it as I see it always. And lord knows I have been wrong many times.

To: Lola who wrote (97)	9/11/2001 10:26:58 PM
From: Rob S.	Respond to of 27666

Unfortunately we are still not that far removed genetically or socially from our aggressive ape-men ancestors. We still polarize ourselves from states of complacency into dealing with unpleasant realities that may have long festered only when the boils of trouble have burst open. This is, unfortunately, one of those times. We need to be aware and vigilant of the reality we live in today. And we need to take deliberate and forceful action. We can't allow evil and the chaos it hopes to generate to defeat the institutions and commerce that sustains us.