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To: Condor who wrote (71921)	2/6/2003 10:51:02 PM
From: frankw1900	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

As the next conjunction forms it will be interesting to see who and what is perceived as the threat. I'd bet there will be a few surprised (shocked) posters here and probably myself included. The new world order that dangles like sugar plums in the minds of the rightist posters here may well turn out to be world chaos.... History is contingent so nothing is sure. But I've got an inkling of how the next few years will play out in terms of sides. The modernists and those who aspire to modernity will be one camp, mostly, and the rest will be in the other camp, mostly. The modernists and aspiring modernists have the weight of population, wealth and military power. The anti-modernists, such as the islamofascists, baathists, hindufacists have passion, destructive ideology, and violence. It's likely but not certain the modernists will prevail. ...and despite their huffing and puffing and chest pounding bravado I believe that inside each of them they know of this dark suffocating dangerous aspect of their position and it has them terrified like little children. I do feel alarm regarding the possibilities of the next few weeks since I read of the arrests of the terrorists with ricin. But that's intelligent alarm, I believe. I expect George Bush probably feels alarm for the same and similar reasons, not to mention fear in the face of starting a war of which the outcome can't be certain but still must be undertaken for the best of reasons. My anxiety is increased by the thought the US might not invade Iraq. The outcome if it does not is continued misery for people of Iraq, and increased danger for everyone in the rest of the world. Here's an idea for you to conjure with: If Hussein gets enough fissionable material, he'll have a nuclear bomb made in weeks.