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To: JustTradeEm who wrote (40827)	10/1/2001 1:53:45 PM
From: SirRealist	Respond to of 50167

I understand that in a comfort zone, complacence occurs. But we saw a war zone in NYC and the response there speaks well of our capacity to get the job done. I believe also that some who look for root causes are not doing so to assess blame, but to see if there's a way to avoid repeating well-recognized errors that fertilized the malignant seed of evil. Evil is a consuming fire. Correcting US errors merely avoids throwing gasoline on it, and seeks water, instead. And I'd contend we've faced unmitigated evil before: in Germany and Japan and Cambodia, just to name a few. Terrorists have existed throughout history. They cannot defeat civil nations, however, because they do not have the numbers to do so. Only nations or armies of like proportions can defeat a civil nation. And it's precisely our effort to save cataclysmic weapons for last that makes us civil. Using them first might save time, and US lives, but in the process, we'd lose a central quality we are fighting to defend. It is a hard choice but a necessary one, because of the principles we hold dear.