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To: jim black who wrote (26841)	1/4/2003 6:11:53 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74559

Hi Jim - as Mq said, it's not all rot, there is no doubt that the US has enemies in the world. My point is that free-floating anxiety is hard on the system. Better to understand the enemy and worry about things that are likely to occur. Could Al Qaeda/Iraq/Iran/North Korea smuggle a number of nuclear and/or dirty bombs into the US and set them off more or less simultaneously? Sure. What would be the result? Highly unpleasant for those at ground zero or in the fallout path, highly inconvenient for the rest of us, but, you know what? Life would adjust and go on, pretty much the same as before. Weird but true. We aren't going back to the Stone Age, we aren't going to emulate Caligula, and we aren't going back on the gold standard.

To: jim black who wrote (26841)	1/5/2003 12:23:38 AM
From: pezz	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74559

<<we are stupid for going after the camel boy (saddam with emphasis on first syllable) instead ot TAKING the Saudi oil fields, >> Jim did you know that Iraq has almost as much oil reserves as the Saudi's.....What do you think Bush's REAL reason for going into Iraq is? If we establish a base there we no longer NEED the Saudi's oil.......Himmm ? This we can get away with. Taking the Saudi fields might not play so well with the rest of the world but the Iraqi oil fields.... Cheap oil is Bush's way to get us out of the recession and get himself re-elected... He don't wanna follow daddy's footsteps.

To: jim black who wrote (26841)	1/5/2003 1:20:16 AM
From: smolejv@gmx.net	Respond to of 74559

Hi Jim: Seen from the outside, oderint dum metuant is the password anyhow. If that makes anybody any safer, I dont know. Salman Rushie: without British passport I guess he would have it difficult in those years. Without British passport (ie his Malabar, midnight children, Satanic verses, etc background, the British system allowing Gandhi and the birth of Indian state) he would probably not get into the turmoil. [That sounds dangerously close to "It's his own fault", but it's just close and anyhow not intended] From this perspective, he reminds me very much of Vojislav Seselj ( fighter for or profiteer from freedom of expresssion, ending in a very strange positrion / role).