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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Jerry in Omaha who wrote (2048)	10/1/2001 1:58:52 PM
From: FaultLine	Read Replies (6) \| Respond to of 281500

Jerry and THREAD too many lengthy articles in lieu of substantive personal interaction and discourse. I too am thinking about this exact problem. Each day the avalanche seems to be accelerating. the reality is that there is an inexhaustible supply of resource material and that we certainly cannot digest this material beyond a certain point. I'm at a bit of loss as to how to regulate this situation -- you folks need to help me out here. Several ideas have come to mind: 1. Limit copyposting (nice term...) to one or two items per person per day. 2. Devise a scaling system that permit several news items per day on the board, but far fewer magazine, journal, and website postings each day. 3. Use me at some level to pre-filter all this background info. The good news is that I would closely guide the forum. The bad news is that I would closely guide the forum! The even worst news is that I might be buried in material. 4. Move back to my original focus on Foreign Affairs articles supplemented by news items and a limited amount of (preapproved) background material from other sources. This would lead to a more "acedemic" and limited forum - actually closer to my original intent. 5. We could require that every item be accompanied with a poster-created summary and/or analysis suggesting why this item is important, what it means and to who, what effect this may have on future policy decisions for the USA and other nations. LOL This would sure slow things down! But you know, I kind of like it. 6. Limit discussion to specific topics - the "assigned" readings in the header, other suggested readings, and current new items. This would focus the forum quite a bit. Everyone interested in this forum should sound off with suggestions on how to make it a more effective and interesting place to spend your time with the emphasis on 'effective'. Item 4 above may help guide your thoughts. Please bear in mind -- this thread is NOT a world events and history FREE-FOR-ALL. It becomes a waste of time if we do that. Thanks for listening, Ken/FL

To: Jerry in Omaha who wrote (2048)	10/1/2001 2:25:48 PM
From: SirRealist	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Just a couple notes, Jerry; I did hear about pilots in cockpit jump seats from a coupla sources (don't make me go back and look for 'em, please) as well as the fact that the killer Atta was given a tour of Logan Airport. Reading Halberstam's comments, I'd say the media is not so much covering up as displaying its modern ineptness at bonafide journalism. As for the nuke plant, unless there's more than meets the eye, it may reflect the conviction of some that the terrorists are more likely to target highly visible symbols of what they call our imperialism. If they're right, since we all know where the Prez gets sheltered, covering the military hot spots makes sense. A car bombed nuclear plant is high on my list, though the maximum impact of that kind of attack would be felt more in places with larger populations. NY, Florida and Hollywood stand out, because of large concentrations of American Jewish populations. Still, all nuclear plants should be better covered. Bin Laden is mad, but he's crafty.