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To: Mark Adams who wrote (121978)	9/14/2001 2:43:17 PM
From: Dana Johnson	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 436258

Possibly over several generations, as those currently brainwashed age out of the system. Don't underestimate the power of bluejeans and rock & roll...

To: Mark Adams who wrote (121978)	9/14/2001 4:12:44 PM
From: (Bob) Zumbrunnen	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 436258

First, a short squeeze aimed at bin Laden? Message 16351301 Nah. But I wanted to just voice my disgust right now. While a firm hand may be required to be deal with Afghanistan, it's quite likely that a substantial portion of the organization has already dispersed. Also, cutting off the head of the organization without getting the lieutenants will merely make the head a martyr. Precisely. We should have stomped all the cockroaches the second the light came on. Instead, we were like "Ewww! Roaches! Gee. I really don't like roa...." and by then they'd all dispersed. I'm sure I'm not the only person who is more than a little disgusted with our slow-moving government right now. It may already be too late to get what we are due. Likely is. At least at this point, I don't think we can get it through the military. Perhaps at this point all that's left is surgical removals. I know assassination is illegal, but hey. So's commandeering our planes and using them to kill thousands of us. It's hard to imagine anything that could disgust me more right now than our government's inaction, but there is one thing: Attacks on Islamic people inside our borders. Personally, I consider every single Arab-speaking person who now lives in this country to be even more of an American than I am. Why? Because I became an American through not one iota of effort on my part. I had the good fortune to have been born here. Had I been born Palestinian, for example, I doubt I'd have the courage to leave behind my familiar surroundings, friends, and family, to start a new life in a land that I knew would always be at least somewhat hostile and foreign to me. These attacks against Arab-descent people who are Americans now is beyond disgusting. It's hatred of people for what they are rather than for what they do. Which is just plain WRONG. Torching a mosque. Harassing (harming?) Arab girls. Even glaring at a person for being dark-skinned is just wrong. Some of my fellow countrymen sicken me. I can forgive stupidity, but I can't stand stupid malice. Stupidity (well, ignorance, anyway) is panicking and paying $5 per gallon for fuel when you know full well there's going to be an enormous decrease in demand (airlines and interstate movement of goods) or because you assumed it was a different group of people who hate us who attacked us. Stupid malice is attacking an American because they look different or because they weren't "Born rat cheer in the good ol' US of A". Sickening. I'm disgusted with some of my own brethren and with my government. And glad that I can say so in a public place without any fear of reprisal from said government. Those who hate us could never comprehend how that simple fact helps make us the kind of people we are. God Bless America