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To: Sam Citron who wrote (80259)	3/7/2003 7:20:46 PM
From: Jacob Snyder	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

<TV....."dumbing down" effect on its audience> I think the upsurge of pacifism in the world, the ever-stronger idea that Force and the Threat of Force is not the way to run the Global Village (even if some of the village's citizens are idiots or monsters), is largely due to TV. The whole planet is seeing, up close in color, what war is, via CNN. It is children starving because the transportation system has broken down. It is piles of half-burnt bodies of young men. It is women committing suicide after being raped repeatedly. It is the pictures on TV, not the words in newspapers, that convince us war is not noble. CNN makes it impossible to romanticize war, to glorify it.

To: Sam Citron who wrote (80259)	3/7/2003 7:25:32 PM
From: Sultan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

OT "assassin" is cognate with the Arabic word "hashish", see silent-arrows.com You need to do a bit more research on this topic.. Here is another more recent book on the subject.. The Assassin Legends : Myths of the Isma'ilis by Farhad Daftary allbookstores.com

To: Sam Citron who wrote (80259)	3/7/2003 7:34:04 PM
From: Jacob Snyder	Respond to of 281500

<the best means of attaining the keys to the global village is through educational travel> yes, that's one important way. We vacation everywhere. We also get our fresh groceries from everywhere, and the toys we buy for our children from everywhere, and the raw materials and components of the cars we drive, from everywhere. And all these processes are new things in history. Plot them on a graph, and they moved from a near-flatline, gradually increasing from the 16th Century on (very gradually at first), and are now reaching a vertical line, a historical Discontinuity. The analogy I was making, with the WarOnDrugs vs. Terror, is that both are being unsuccessfully fought with the Stick, when a Carrot strategy is needed to win both wars. I'm not saying that Islamism is an addiction.