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To: HG who wrote (6155)	10/19/2001 1:17:56 AM
From: Mac Con Ulaidh	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Clearly it is not okay with everyone to speak of getting to the root of the problem. Right now we have to do what we have to do to take care of an immediate danger. It will solve the immediate danger. But it is not a long term cure. After BinLadin and the Taliban, then what? There are more, and there will be more. There are dangers living in our own country, and I'm not talking about Muslim terrorists. Maybe it is too much at this time to think too far into the future when the sorrow of 9/11 is so close. And when our national security depends on quick action (not 100's on 100's of anthrax scares, and those annoying hoaxes.). But we will have to do it down the line. The dangers have been clear for years. Surely I'm not the only one around during the 444 days? Or the hijackings of the past. This didn't even start as early as the 80's, but sooner. Un-American to think of getting to the roots and forging a new future? If people who talk of such things didn't care about America, they wouldn't bother to try and find solutions. As to the Saudi's, I don't know what I think of the regime and country as a whole. But for those there who gave money to BinLadin and his group? I want their money. All of it. What are hackers for? They'd never give another dime to terrorists, and the money could do great good. Not in America? Fine, buy food for the hungry in other countries, build some schools in Afganistan when the people can again call it theirs. We're all Americans, and no one view is the one that should be held by all. Thank goodness for that. It helped bring about a group who came to be known as the Abolishinists. And the Suffragettes. And many others who helped to bring us forward. We always disagree, but when we tear each other apart and scream about who is and is not being an American, or who is a "traitor" for their words, we are not using the strengths of our country to their fullest. The terrorists are the enemy. blahblahblah.