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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: cosmicforce who wrote (27564)	9/16/2001 1:29:21 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 82486

Yes, in that regard, it is like war. There the similarity ends. I started a discussion here early Wednesday with a couple of questions about just what this thing is that we're dealing with. It doesn't fit neatly into any of the paradigms we're accustomed to. After considerable thought, I came to the conclusion that it is, after all, a war partly for the reason you cite. Another key consideration, I think, for what bucket you stick it in is how you would handle the perpetrators. Do we get a warrant, handcuff them and put them on trial? Or do we blow in and blow them up? I think it's the latter. I don't think it's practical to make up a new label each time we come upon something that doesn't fit neatly into the familiar framework. Despite the fact that the enemy isn't a country, I'm comfortable that this is much more like a war than it is like anything else and that the differences between it and war are not significant. So, on Wednesday I started calling it a war. Karen