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

To: Lane3 who wrote (30262)9/29/2001 3:44:52 PM
From: Lane3  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 82486
 
<<Tucson, Arizona Saturday, 29 September 2001
Kyl: Counter germ warfare with nukes

By Joe Salkowski
ARIZONA DAILY STAR

U.S. Sen. Jon Kyl says the United States should respond with nuclear weapons if terrorists ever launch a large-scale attack on America with chemical or biological weapons.

"I can't think of any other appropriate response in the case of a massive attack with biological weapons," Kyl said Friday during a town hall meeting in Tucson. "We have to let terrorist states know that nothing is off the table."

The Arizona Republican wasn't specific about the potential targets for such a counterstrike and conceded that response would kill innocent civilians. Nonetheless, he suggested the United States should consider launching nuclear missiles even if it wasn't clear who launched a chemical or biological attack.

"I would probably go a step further and say to all terrorist states that we're probably not going to know exactly where it came from," Kyl said. "So we're going to hold them all responsible." <snip> >>

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To: Lane3 who wrote (30262)9/30/2001 9:47:05 AM
From: Tom Clarke  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 82486
 
I don't think we've acknowledged it at all. Silvio Berlusconi was raked over the coals when he said that Western culture was superior to Islamic culture.

Some of us understand that Western tradition embodies universal truths, but many postmoderns and relativists in media and academe still think it's a mere ideological construct, and imperialist too.

The shock of Sept. 11 might bring them to reexamine their premises, but they haven't come around yet.


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