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To: chowder who wrote (9921)	10/25/2001 11:47:22 AM
From: cnyndwllr	Respond to of 23153

Dabum, I wasn't being defensive. I appreciate your point of view and I only said I wasn't being negative because of the content of the post I wrote in reply to yours. One of the things that concerns me is that there are things that could happen to make me join some in wanting to wipe everyone out, including their cats. It's interesting to me that a fireman in NY who was in my squad in VN and who lost a lot of friends in the WTC, shares my hesitation to go in and create the damage we are capable of in Afghanistan. I think there's something about seeing what a war really is with it's smells, sounds and the damage it does to human bodies and human minds that raises the bar for deciding what we should do. He is, of course, all for finding and killing those that had an active role in the WTC deaths. He is not for going any farther than that, or at least he wasn't two weeks ago. I think that this thing in Afghanistan will create it's own firestorm fed by it's own wind if we don't keep it held down tightly. Remember that almost all major wars start with incidents that escalate with more incidents until whole populations are filled with anger and hatred and lots of people suffer and die. There must be a better way. Ed