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To: carranza2 who wrote (69251)	1/27/2003 8:45:02 PM
From: MSI	Respond to of 281500

We blew up Afghanistan when all of our enemies who struck at us in the airplanes were Saudi Arabians. They aren’t Afghans, and the Afghans were rather hurt that we were blowing up all their cities when we should have been taking out Riyadh and the Saudi royal family, and perhaps the rest of the families of Osama. James Madison, the master builder of the U.S. Constitution, noted in 1795, “No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.” But, here we go again, unending war against an abstract noun, more useful for domestic politics than anything else.

To: carranza2 who wrote (69251)	1/27/2003 8:56:43 PM
From: MSI	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

A lot more people were killed in Rwanda than in Bosnia and Kosovo. Our military could have stopped the genocide instantly with hardly more than a regiment. Why didn't we move? Good question. I think it has to do with our developing sense of who we are and how we exercise our hyperpower Here is a clue: The Ratchet Phenomenon, which btw disregards human life as any element of computation. "Crisis, Bigger Government, and Ideological Change: Two Hypotheses on the Ratchet Phenomenon" independent.org