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To: Raymond Duray who wrote (8591)	11/2/2001 5:03:41 AM
From: Bilow	Respond to of 281500

Hi Raymond Duray; Re: "... I have to admit it is one of the most compelling, intelligent, sensible and wise things I've read since 9/11." In other words, you agreed with it. By the way, you were going to answer my post #reply-16584356 but probably forgot. It was about the practicality of fighting a war against guerillas in mountainous territory. By the way, here's the US Military's Field Manual on operations in mountainous terrain: adtdl.army.mil -- Carl

To: Raymond Duray who wrote (8591)	11/2/2001 5:32:28 AM
From: Selectric II	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Ms. Roy is a silly leftist fiction writer who, after achieving some success, takes herself too seriously. She apparently thinks she is the "God" of small people, having written a book by that name and having stated that if she was out in the cold needing nourishment, she'd like to be able to knock on people's front doors and, after having identified herself as such, be welcomed and fed. She's apparently narcisistic, and more (I can't think of the term, if there is one, for someone who actually thinks s/he is God). The next generation of delusional wannabes that somebody's going to have to deal with.

To: Raymond Duray who wrote (8591)	11/2/2001 5:39:27 AM
From: Selectric II	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

And I'm obsessive-compulsive about my duty to be informed, so this is no faint praise. That's a matter of opinion. We're not supposed to make personal remarks on this bb, subject to being thrown in "FADG jail" <g> like you were recently, so I'll refrain. However, in the future I might ask FL for "special dispensation," as General Musharraf might put it.

To: Raymond Duray who wrote (8591)	11/2/2001 6:07:17 AM
From: bela_ghoulashi	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

>> Regular medication ensures that mainland America continues to remain the enigma it has always been - a curiously insular people, administered by a pathologically meddlesome, promiscuous government. And what of the rest of us, the numb recipients of this onslaught of what we know to be preposterous propaganda? The daily consumers of the lies and brutality smeared in peanut butter and strawberry jam being air-dropped into our minds just like those yellow food packets. Shall we look away and eat because we're hungry, or shall we stare unblinking at the grim theater unfolding in Afghanistan until we retch collectively and say, in one voice, that we have had enough? As the first year of the new millennium rushes to a close, one wonders - have we forfeited our right to dream? Will we ever be able to re-imagine beauty? Will it be possible ever again to watch the slow, amazed blink of a newborn gecko in the sun, or whisper back to the marmot who has just whispered in your ear - without thinking of the World Trade Center and Afghanistan? © Arundhati Roy << I remember writing stuff like this when I was a sophomore...