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To: Srexley who wrote (182936)	9/17/2001 1:37:45 PM
From: Thomas A Watson	Respond to of 769670

This is kind of the response I expected to very poor judgement. I think those in the media who showed such poor judgement are also tasting their feet. We shall see. Fla. Company Relents, Passes Flags Out In the wake of NCCI's ban on flag display, a story first broken by Phil Galewitz of the Palm Beach Post, the Florida company has reversed its policy. The paper said it received more than 700 e-mails about the story, and NCCI was forced to shut down its Web site over the weekend because of the onslaught of e-mail. No one at NCCI was available for comment, but a public relations recording says that after learning of Gov. Jeb Bush's request to lift the ban on flag display, "Any interested parties can display a flag on their desk. Flags will be provided for any employee who wishes." Red, white and blue lapel pins are also being provided to any of the Boca Raton employer's 850 workers who want them. tom watson tosiwmee

To: Srexley who wrote (182936)	9/17/2001 3:03:20 PM
From: ThirdEye	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

I think the way most things are going is proper. In the short term we need to allocate the necessary resources to the investigative end as we are doing. Beefing up domestic security, creating more widespread and aggressive information exchange with international security forces, getting control of and/or tracing the financial end of terrorist support, developing the international commitments that are necessary.... but, I just think it's a little premature to be expecting a military response, which could easily turn out to look clumsy, ineffective and rage-driven rather than precise, justified and effective. Not only can we not afford to look like fools, we can't afford to be indiscriminate in our response.