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To: Elsewhere who wrote (30041)	5/18/2002 9:13:24 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Thanks for that! I needed an injection of optimistic turbo boost. You writing that made me realize how little actual optimistic forward-looking happy-making stuff is written. I guess it's the market debt:equity ratio and jihad casting a pall. As you say, the big stuff is a LOT less threatening than the MAD old days of Teller and Sakharov, Krushchev and Kennedy. There is also a LOT that has gone right and we are enjoying every day. Such as cyberspace. Mqurice

To: Elsewhere who wrote (30041)	5/19/2002 1:16:00 PM
From: tfrugal	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

<<I believe our world is a very much better place now than it was in 1989>>> I would so much like to agree with you, but I don't. True the cold war ended, but so did the days of having 2 identifiable 'sides'. Both of the Powers had bureaucracies that kept a strategy like MAD viable, as well as controlling the weapons of mass destruction. Today, It seems we are evolving into a state vs cell type of struggle. The bad guys don't wear uniforms, and they are not on the other side of a barrier, they are everywhere. They walk amongst us, plotting to bring our various governments and cultures down. They think our freedoms will be our destruction. The really frightening part is that those WMD's are slowly getting in the hands of individuals, instead of governments. That is the downside of our ever evolving technologies, that greater and greater powers of destruction are being controlled by smaller and smaller groups of people, with less saftey interlocks. How long until Jihad is nuclear? The future might hold dangers from anywhere, instead of some mental case climbing into the bell tower with a sniper rifle, what if he gets a bomb? Winners and losers is not relevant if the loser decides to blow the whole thing up.... One other point about the end of the cold war: from a Christian point of view, the world ends in armaggedon in the middle east. The Warsaw pact and NATO had (have) Christian traditions, and were content with the status quo. Events in the middle east are way different, with many believing that the way to heaven is guaranteed by dying in combat, and the final war before the coming of the Messiah is predestined. Nobody worries about surviving as the world ends......If One Believes in the Bible, the end of days is foretold, and we are on that track. I think that might just be a common belief of Christians, Jews, and Muslims. The cold war was secular, the middle east anything but.