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To: SirRealist who wrote (5063)	10/14/2001 9:07:03 PM
From: 49thMIMOMander	Respond to of 281500

$10 or $100 a barrel??

To: SirRealist who wrote (5063)	10/14/2001 9:34:43 PM
From: Bilow	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Hi SirRealist; Re: "I certainly felt more 'hostage' to the Cold War MAD philosophies and hundreds of millions of Chinese or Russian soldiers, than I feel towards, perhaps 100,000 extremists teetering on the edge of being annihilated by most of the civilized world." You got that right! The fall of Communism was an event that we should have declared a jubilee over, but instead it damn near went unheralded in this country. -- Carl

To: SirRealist who wrote (5063)	10/14/2001 10:41:06 PM
From: Ilaine	Respond to of 281500

>>I certainly felt more 'hostage' to the Cold War MAD philosophies and hundreds of millions of Chinese or Russian soldiers, than I feel towards, perhaps 100,000 extremists teetering on the edge of being annihilated by most of the civilized world.<< Me, too. People can laugh at "Dr. Strangelove," but despite the absurdity (maybe because of it) the film actually depicted what I feared. I don't discount the possibility that our present foes may have a nuclear weapon, or even a few, but nothing like "mutally assured destruction." MAD worked because we knew that the Russians would never do anything really stupid, and the Russians knew that we would never do anything really stupid. We understood each other. This is a new enemy, and they are capable of really surprising us because what we think is stupid, they don't.