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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: epicure who wrote (61302)	10/7/2002 10:46:31 AM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

They destroyed themselves but over a period of about 70 years. During those 70 years they killed tens of millions of people and threatened the possibility of killing hundreds of millions or even billions. There threat also required us to spend trillions on defense that could have done a lot of good elsewhere. If we could have saved all that for the cost of say Dessert Storm/Saber then I think it would have been a good bargain and thats with the benefit of hindsight. We know that the worse didn't happen. Decades ago they did not and the possibility of something even worse then what actually happened was real. You may be talking about physical danger. But when people are in danger of being wiped out culturally, I think the danger is perceived as very real (and physical) to them. And that is what matters, in terms of understanding. I think physical danger often justifies and even requires a physical response. Fear of cultural influence does not. Tim