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To: michael97123 who wrote (66416)	1/16/2003 2:54:45 PM
From: JohnM	Respond to of 281500

It strikes me that you and particularly Scott are doing quite alot of this yourselves. Mike, A couple of points. On Nadine and 9/11, the article Scott posted referred to military costs and it's my impression that the biggest military costs at the moment have to do with an invasion of Iraq. Am I wrong? I continue to believe that the arguments that say we need to invade Iraq because of 9/11 are wrong, at best. There may be reasons we can all debate about whether or not, but the 9/11 ones simply have no evidence yet. If ever. On the reasonableness stuff, you miss my point. I argue with a great many folk here. The act of arguing is to treat the person taking the other side as a partner in a conversation/debate. That article about le Carre's article simply dismissed le Carre from the conversation. Thus the criterion of "reasonableness" is a way to let some into the argument and banish others. Not my tactic. Unless, of course, I'm attacked personally. But that's another matter.