To: Follies who wrote (82072 ) 2/14/2002 2:42:46 PM From: E. Charters Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 116790 I know it sounds callous, but given the limited food and energy supply, and burgeoning population growth everywhere but Europe and North America, it is highly evident that a certain number of people gotta die. i.e. About 2/3's of the world population. For a while we have the nukes and the delivery systems. If we clean up the nukes to 98% efficiency which I think can be done by increasing their neutron capacity, then we can afford to cleanse the world of excess population. Never mind who is good and evil. Everyone is our friend if there aren't too many of them and they are our friend, of necessity or not. Becoming energy and food self sustaining positively for the survival of the human race is a good that outweighs the nastier aspects of the matter. Its a bit icky but if we don't do it,nobody survives. At least we had better do it before they get the idea to do it to us. Given their rhetoric and unwillingness or inability to control their populations we had best not leave the decision making to them. We are the great energy users so we had better take care of that as well. We had better mend our ways. Einstein thought that the 4th world war would be fought with sticks and stones. Before that becomes true, let's win this one the easy way. We don't have to make up a reason to attack them out of pure evil. They will attack us. They are preparing. They are attacking. We had better be prepared to retaliate en masse and win, with extreme prejudice. Everyone is tied up in knots waffling over who is responsible, the seeming nice government from whom the attackers come, or just some lone nuts with guns. It's really simple. It's like smoking out bees. You go the hive and you kill them. Then the lone bees don't bite anymore. It's not a big problem. EC<:-}