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To: stockman_scott who wrote (57337)11/15/2002 1:48:32 PM
From: tekboy  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 281500
 
did anybody else find that symposium something of a dud? I did. those kind of things are hard to do well--talk isn't really meant to be preserved, and group conversations rarely work well--and I thought this was just as thin as most of the genre...

tb@sniffsniff.com



To: stockman_scott who wrote (57337)11/15/2002 2:34:56 PM
From: Karen Lawrence  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 281500
 
Those regimes are having a hard time containing their populations' anger toward the U.S. and Israel already. It's terrifying to think about a massive Israeli response in Iraq in conjunction with us. If we are together with Israel in a war against Iraq—let's say in the best case scenario, if the Arab states sit it out—the alignment against the United States will be solidified for generations, I think. And it would be a terrible catastrophe for that to happen. The wrath incurred will never abate. IMO