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To: Cary Salsberg who wrote (69742)	4/13/2003 9:39:35 AM
From: Sun Tzu	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 70976

> War was not the last choice in Iraq I was talking about the other side. They did not attack US lightly imo. The conditions that led to it were in place for decades and all other solutions had failed. > the success of the military is likely to make it a more popular choice in the future Unfortunately so. But that will not solve the problem. > Bin Laden isn't depraved because people in his country are deprived. Not all need is material. People you are fighting are not doing so because they are starving. They do so because they see themselves as victims of brutal regimes supported by US and because they see their culture under assault from all directions. > the administration believes there is a relationship between social conditions, political aspirations and terrorism. This is a lighter way of saying what I said in the above paragraph. But I don't think the administration likes the solutions that will really work. ST