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To: Bilow who wrote (103388)	6/29/2003 10:53:42 AM
From: Hawkmoon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

The domino theory was used to justify 50+ thousand US dead in Vietnam. That Cambodia and Laos fell cost us nothing. Our aid to Thailand was minuscule, both in lives and dollars, compared to our losses in Vietnam. We lost 50,000 people over the course of 10 years Bilow... In Korea we lost 50,000 people within 2 years.. Now ask yourself... Looking at the level of economic and political improvement in that nation, should we have come to the rescue of the S. Koreans in 1950 and sacrifice the lives of 25,000 Americans a year?? It's so easy for people to default to "'dem people ain't worth a single drop of American blood".... That's one of the intrinsic qualities about being American, that people who live here have come here to get away from the BS that existed in their previous homes... But you have to ask yourself what price we'll pay later on if we permit Islamic militancy to pervade the Persian Gulf.. Since they obviously cannot generate the form of economic system that will resolve the problems of the people they seek to rule, they will seek external reasons for why they have failed to improve the daily lot of the people... And that means they will continue to rely upon exporting their surplus population to the west, along with their militant ideology, setting up terrorist cells and support networks into our own countries, in order to destabilize our own economies... That's the future I fear your kind of thinking will lead us towards Carl.. Preferring the pound of cure over the ounce of prevention.. (or intervention, in this case).. Hawk@youcan'targuewithdemographics.gov