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To: Sun Tzu who wrote (52012)	9/13/2001 11:39:30 AM
From: Cary Salsberg	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 70976

We have been having a relatively civil discussion, but we all feel angry, sad, and helpless. For much of our 225 years, the US has been protected from the ravages of history by our "New World" isolation. Pearl Harbor wasn't mainland America. Our sense of security has been shattered. The perpetrators of this atrocity are mostly dead, but they have won this battle. There is little we will be able to do, violent or otherwise, to allow us to think that our innocent fellow citizens did not die in vain. I blame the incompetence and selfishness of American political and business leadership for the death of my fellow citizens. This was not the first terrorist attack on US interests. Why are airport security personnel paid $7/hour and corporate CEOs $10s of millions a year? What did Ellen Hancock do for Exodus, for example? Israel has had realistic airport security for years. Clinton spent his time getting blow jobs and Bush learning his ABCs and the American people were left to die. I don't buy the bravado, bipartisan crap from our government. It is obvious that all they pay attention to is what they think the American people want to hear and what their personal agendas are. I think that this national tragedy requires a complete housecleaning, but I won't hold my breath.