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To: paul_philp who wrote (35398)	7/31/2002 2:15:17 AM
From: Bilow	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Hi paul philp; Re: "If he does poses a threat then the cost of not attacking him are very high indeed." This doesn't logically follow. Certainly the USSR posed "a threat" during the Cold War, but does that mean that the "costs of not attacking" them were very high indeed? The reason the war party's arguments seem so strong is that they are ignoring or minimizing the costs of war. This stretches beyond just the money and blood, but also the influence of the act on the rest of the world. Beating your kids has consequences beyond the simple (temporary) obedience that you can instill in them. -- Carl