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To: Eashoa' M'sheekha who wrote (412391)	6/7/2003 11:53:35 AM
From: Lazarus_Long	Respond to of 769670

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To: Eashoa' M'sheekha who wrote (412391)	6/7/2003 11:58:10 AM
From: Lazarus_Long	Respond to of 769670

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To: Eashoa' M'sheekha who wrote (412391)	6/7/2003 11:58:10 AM
From: Lazarus_Long	Respond to of 769670

Duplicate.

To: Eashoa' M'sheekha who wrote (412391)	6/7/2003 11:58:10 AM
From: Lazarus_Long	Respond to of 769670

Duplicate.

To: Eashoa' M'sheekha who wrote (412391)	6/7/2003 11:58:10 AM
From: Lazarus_Long	Respond to of 769670

There is no comparison to be made with Pearl. There isn't? The war against Afghanistan followed 9/11. The war against Japan followed Pearl Harbor. Both were led by fanatics who saw Westerners as the devil incarnate. Both were attacks on Americans on American soil. It is only in YOUR mind that no parallel exists. In everyone else's, the parallels are clear: an attack against the US is an act of war. I'm speechless Had that gang of criminals been sponsored by radical Hindus based in India, do you think US response would have been any different? There would have been demands on the gov't housing them to turn them over and war if they refused. To even call it such is even worse still,as it is anything BUT patriotic to deny citizens their rights. What you miss is that the US gov't in previous wars has curtailed civil rights in wartime - and ended the curtailment when the war was over. All gov'ts do this as standard procedure. To criticize this single gov't for this without criticizing its predecessors is partisan absurdity. The passing of the Patriot Act was not totally reckless. There is a sunset provision in it. That is why Ashcroft is pushing Patriot II now. And it is absurd to believe that full civil rights will continue during wartime in any case in any country that normally has any of significance. You will be more alone in that fight if your foreign policy persists in dismissing everyone else as " irrelevant ",and is indeed run by what may turn out to be " a bunch of criminals " Laz. US foreign policy in the ME must be changed. It must become more evenhanded. But to change it in response to attacks by Muslim extremists is simply to invite more such attacks by them and other groups. One of things that supposedly encouraged OBL to take his action was the speedy withdrawal of US forces from Lebanon following the Embassy truck bombing there. Had the US instead beefed up its forces there and hunted down and killed the perpetrators, we might not be having these problems now.