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To: Raymond Duray who wrote (9358)	11/8/2001 4:45:28 AM
From: FaultLine	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

Items 1,3,4,5,6,7,8 have little or no bearing on 9-11 Item 2 - no, they'll kill him. JMO, -k/fl

To: Raymond Duray who wrote (9358)	11/8/2001 10:33:47 AM
From: Hawkmoon	Respond to of 281500

and what "bit" would you suggest? Raymond... For one thing, the majority of land mines sitting in Afghanistan and throughout the Middle East are of RUSSIAN AND CHINESE design and/or manufacture.. The only nations I'm aware of that currently host US made landmines in any number are S. Korea and Germany. So why should it matter if the US signs these kinds of treaties when we're not the primary purveyor of these weapons? Secondly... It's all well and good to have world courts for war criminals like Bin Laden, just as for Milosevic.. But how do you go about extraditing these folks? We've had an indictment against OBL for year now, and the Taliban refused to extradict him. Economic sanctions? Big whoopee... And anti-missile defense is suddenly making sense, not for the US, but for Russia, who sees the threat of some of the missiles they and the Chinese have sold to the Arabs being armed with biological weapons and shot against them. Star Wars is only destabilizing to the balance of power, if Russia or China believe that the US will use it to gain pre-emptive strike capability against them. And we very well won't be doing that if we need their support in this war against extremists. As for frankenfoods.. I just leave you with this thought.. Name one major crop grown throughout the world that has not be geneticially modified through hybridization, or bears any resemblance to its wild relatives. Mankind has been engaged in genetic modification of wild crops for THOUSANDS of years. Global warming... The US is not the major producer of greenhouse gases. In fact, earlier this year, the western US was covered with a dusty haze of smog that originated in China and blew across the Pacific to the US and Canada. Kyoto was a flawed treaty because it did little to nothing towards diminishing pollution from Asia and other dirty industry nations. Making nations like the US, increase their already stringent pollution standards, while expecting nothing from China and the rest of Asia, would be ridiculous. Better to implement subsidization programs on a global basis that assists these nations with technology to diminish their own output. As for real estate.... I seem to recall that it was the Japanese who were quite busy buying up US property like Rockefeller center, only to lose their butts and later sell it back to US interests at a loss. If's the US is so bad, I certainly see nothing compelling you to live here. Hawk