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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (172875)	7/30/2003 5:08:43 PM
From: Road Walker	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1571245

Ten, re: but North Korea is a prime example of how preemption is out of the question. Like I said before, Seoul is just 100 km away from the DMZ. Well Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Syria probably felt they were uncomfortably close to Iraq. But when it is Seoul, well, that a little different. Premption is a grat strategy as long as you are not preempting close to my people, eh? You have to take that sympathy for you own people, and mix in a little empathy for the innocent folks in Iraq. It might change your perspective. John

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (172875)	7/30/2003 5:51:42 PM
From: Road Walker	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1571245

Ten, re: Yeah, yeah, you're more likely to die in a car accident than in an act of terrorism. You are more likely to die from almost anything than terrorism. There is a hysteria in this country, reinforced by 1000 images of the WTC. There are almost certainly going to be additional terrorist attacks in this country, but they are going to be much smaller, and they are going to be few and far between. It has been almost two years since 9/11, and it was 8 years before that, that we had the first WTC bombing. That's it as far as terrorist attacks, nothing more, zip, nada. Both were from the same source, by the way. Is this REALLY the most pressing issue of our time? How much of GDP to you want to spend on a "zero tolerance policy" against terrorism? How much personal freedom do you want to give up? How many wars do you want to fight, with good American kids dying, and killing innocents abroad? For a threat that is minor compared to everyday life. They don't call them terrorists for nothing; 9/11 was the perfect torrist attack (helped by live TV), it terroized the sh-t out of us, to the point that we can't balance priorities. I'm sure OBL is still laughing, not because of the people he killed, but because he took 15-20 guys and changed the course of the most powerful nation in the world. He won, big time. And we out are chasing ghosts, and we are not even in the right country. Makes you sick. John