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To: Gottfried who wrote (52182)	9/15/2001 3:06:30 AM
From: Jacob Snyder	Respond to of 70976

Good article, but I don't think Peres has thought this through completely. Imagine a society made up of 10 people, living in a spaceship. Each of them has a hand grenade in their hand. If anyone gets pissed off enough at anyone else, he can pull the pin. He can kill whoever he hates (along with himself and the other 8 innocent bystanders). That's the kind of world we now live in. Which means we can't tolerate a "smoking" section. The whole world has to be a "non-smoking" area. No exceptions. It won't work to cordon them off, send them into a ghetto and forget about them. And, because there will always be someone trying to sneak a cigarette, there must be very effective smoke detectors, and quick policemen who arrest the smokers before they "light up". Better yet, take their cigarrettes away, so they aren't tempted. After that, then we can get into the touchy-feely stuff, give them counselling for their addiction, find out if their mother or the CIA set a bad example for them. He's right, about the necessity of not turning this into a war of Christians and Jews against Moslems (or Americans and Europeans against Africans and Asians). If we kill 5 terrorists, but do it in a way so 10 new recruits join the terrorist group, we haven't made progress. This is a battle for "hearts and minds". And those are harder to win than tank battles.