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To: bacchus_ii who wrote (69448)	1/28/2003 10:38:42 AM
From: stockman_scott	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 281500

<<...The way to make it more likely that such weapons will be used on the U.S. is to have our government continue poking its military stick in hornets’ nests around the world. That, surely, should have been one lesson from September 11. One of Osama bin Laden’s biggest gripes was that U.S. troops were stationed on Saudi soil. Had it not been for the Gulf War of 1991, we wouldn’t have had a toehold for our troops in Saudi Arabia and, in all likelihood, those troops would not have been there in 2001. In that case, we might not be mourning 3,000 dead people this coming September. Interestingly, it was this kind of meddling, mainly by the Reagan administration, that encouraged Saddam Hussein to turn his country into an offensive military power. The simple fact is that when a government intervenes in another government’s affairs, unintended consequences, many of them bad, often result...>> independent.org Excellent article...thanks for posting it...the author really examines how unintended consequences can spiral out of control.