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To: FaultLine who wrote (40)	9/16/2001 9:22:22 AM
From: Agnitio	Respond to of 281500

Interesting link on "superweapons". Read if you don't believe technology is critical to our future -- both for defense and other uses. newsoftheworld.co.uk

To: FaultLine who wrote (40)	9/22/2001 3:50:39 PM
From: FaultLine	Respond to of 281500

Here's the reference mentioned in the Sep. 14 article in The People's Daily --fl ==================================== The Clash of Civilizations? by Samuel P. Huntington From Foreign Affairs, Summer 1993 foreignaffairs.org ==================================== From (China) People's Daily Friday, September 14, 2001, updated at 17:05(GMT+8) Terrorist Attack on US: Turning-Point in Post-Cold War Pattern [excerpt] Escalation of Cultural Conflict of Power Politics The handful of terrorists, after making careful and thorough planning, had been able, by a hijacking method, to launch so powerful attack on such a developed country as the United States, this has elevated terrorist activities to a new realm. In the past, terrorists threatened that they would carry out some sort of attack, but most people took a laissez-faire attitude toward them, but now it seems it is not exaggerate to say that such a terrorist move does suffice to bring about a disastrous consequence. As far as the United States is concerned, in concept, it really did not take the terrorist threat lightly, scholar Samuel P. Huntington put forward his viewpoint as early as 1993, when he said: The world does not unavoidably embrace the Western concept of value as predicted after the West gained victory in the Cold War, on the contrary, the world is marching step by step toward the conflicts of various cultures.