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To: ikonoklast53 who wrote (24896)	9/16/2001 12:33:17 PM
From: John Curtis	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 27311

Goep: Jumpin' Jeezus. There's some powerful weaponry in Western arsenals!! But even so, I'm not sure in this instance that a lot of it is useful per se. Why? Here's a re-posting from the Yahoo-VLNC thread of my thoughts on this, our first war of the 21st Century: ********** Interesting....if true (article about certain Mid-Eastern folk short selling re-insurers, etc., in the days before 9/11) it looks like certain aspects of the Mid-East took to heart, and have implemented, that dictum made famous by a leader of the former Soviet Union. "By the very rope they sell us shall we hang them." Or something to this effect. Anyway, where war is concerned (having grown up in the military) I'm somewhat in agreement with Larry. Be careful what you wish for, and always be on guard against the Law of Unintended Consequences. Even so, now comes the truly hard part. Obliterating an enemy who fights from the shadows and then vanishes. To do this will require as much originality in military and economic thinking as that which was applied in turning commercial aircraft into flying bombs. This new way in thinking will have to involve not only the specifics and logistics of physical war, but also the new ways of war engendered by our global web of electronic, financial/economic, networks. I daresay the latter (electronic warfare) may, in our modern age, be a more important way to gut an enemy. Indeed, that aforementioned dictum points the way to truly fighting those in the shadows. The only true way to fight them is to cordon off their life's blood, the financial systems by which their efforts are funded, amongst other things. And all of this will need to be done in such a fashion by the West that sympathetic "others" aren't alienated. Yes, truly the hard part is yet to come. Here's hoping Western leaders can get it right. John~ American Citizen