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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Solon who wrote (42358)	1/15/2002 6:12:25 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 82486

It was you who tried to make a lack of absolute extinction significant. I didn't think the literal message was the point. I don't find it to be of vast significance but the literal message was wrong so I was pointing out the innacuracy. I reacted to it similarly to how I react to statements like "we could destroy the world 350 times over with our nuclear weapons", if the point is to say that we don't need to expand our nuclear arsenal I would probably agree, but the specific statement used to express the idea is false. Maybe statements like this are just a pet peeve of mine that cause me to overreact, maybe not. Whoever is reading this can form there own conclusions about that. The point was to emphasize (as you have since agreed) that the Japanese were helpless. I agree if by helpless you mean they had absolutly no chance of winning or preventing us from attacking them. Tim