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To: Eddy Blinker who wrote (15547)	7/25/2002 10:02:46 AM
From: kodiak_bull	Respond to of 23153

Ed, I'm not sure of the kind of get-together, whether it's a gathering around the barbecue or weekly attendance at church services or simply normalized advise and cooperate. I'm hoping it's not a run for one's life kind of refugee flight such as you describe, but who knows? Let's take the French. It'd be nice, one supposes, to have the French do a little post 9/11 than to feel sorry for our dead for a couple of weeks and then go back to its normalized egoisme approach to existence. Of all the countries in western Europe, the French have to most to lose from Arabic terrorism, since there's such a huge number of unassimilated potential provocateurs on shore. But les francais won't think beyond the next croissant until they've been blown up several times (Sacre Bleu, another suitcase bomb at le Louvre!) and overrun by disaster (witness WWII) and then they'll shake their hands, say "Ouf! Helas!" and send out the international distress call. En francais, of course. Their attention span and ability to focus on future dire events resemble nothing so much as a 15-year old boy with a learner's permit. Hokay, it's morning in America, time for this rally to regroup a little and look for its legs. Kb