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To: Elsewhere who wrote (77674)	2/26/2003 9:47:20 AM
From: michael97123	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

JJ, Just as there is new europe and old europe, there is also new europe in old europe too. The earler belgian post and yours are examples of what should be a new neocon domestic movement on the rise. Socialism has failed and the domestic neocon movement arises when that failure becomes evident. Germans too will have to adjust their welfare system and motivate the work force. No more 35 hour weeks for you(collective you). I work 50 hours a week and dont break a sweat. Thats the way it is. Beats the alternative. Mike

To: Elsewhere who wrote (77674)	2/26/2003 10:05:58 AM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

>> "We in Germany do not understand completely the psychological feeling after Sept. 11 that you have in America."<< Personally, I can't understand completely the psychological feeling that New Yorkers felt after September 11. I only knew one person who died then, and only from SI. I didn't have to go to work every day knowing that the dust I saw everywhere contained the ashes of the dead, and that I was breathing them in. But I do understand the urgency that the Bush administration is feeling. The attack on the Pentagon is one reason, and the aborted attack that never came, probably aimed at the Capitol, is another. People who live here are making plans about what to do in the event of another attack. The Pentagon just issued gas masks to all its employees, both military and civilion, at the cost of $150 each. I know, for example, a parent who told me that the school board of Alexandria is trying to figure out how to maintain school children in clean rooms for days, in the event that the parents can't come back. There is a tremendous sense of urgency, of risk. Risk to our children. Risk to our spouses. Risk to our neighbors. Risk to everything we value. I had to go to court in Arlington a couple of weeks ago, and became acutely conscious that there was no way that I or my husband could get home in the event of another attack, due to the prevailing traffic patterns, and that my children assume that I will come pick them up, so I need to come up with a backup plan. My husband works half a mile from the Pentagon. It took him, as I recall, four or five hours to get home that day. Perhaps you noticed that the people on the West Coast all of a sudden perked up and started commenting when North Korea started acting threatening. Lindy Bill is always making comments about North Korean nukes. Well, he lives in Hawaii, so he feels more threatened. Personally, I don't feel all that threatened by North Korea, but I understand why he does. You can't know what it's like until it happens to you. I pray that it never does. Kumar and I have gone round and round about this. Why are we so resolved to stop it now, when we didn't do anything about it before? Because this time, it's personal.