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To: LindyBill who wrote (43029)	9/10/2002 11:47:01 AM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 281500

Of course, now Sontag says America has every right to hunt down the perpetrators of these crimes and their accomplices. a little different from her message after 9/11. Now we have a right; then, we had it coming. Then she adds But this determination is not necessarily a war. her whole argument is that since Al Qaeda is not a state, the WOT is not a war, and therefore cannot ever end. This is an utter misunderstanding of what non-state actors are, and can do, but she seems to be consistent about it. For Sontag, either it's a state, or it just bubbles out of the ground, sort of like drug use, and can only be warred on metaphorically. The notion that non-state actors, like states, need command and control, funding, safe havens to operate from, and are dependent on key leaders and powerful patronage, seems not to have occurred to her. It's remarkable how a seemingly intelligent woman can say such idiotic things.