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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (117302)	10/21/2003 10:42:08 AM
From: skinowski	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

we're less inclined to go to war because it's more difficult to focus and "persuade" American citizens to mobilize the national will to do so A mass psychology which evolved over many years of relative peace and prosperity cannot come to a dead stop all at once. Recall that WWII followed a global depression and a long period of various hardships and cruelties (the boom of the 1920's having been a welcome break). If we are destined to see a more determinately militaristic mindset taking hold, it will have to occur over an extended period of time. A single event like WTC would not be enough. I hope, of course, that this doesn't happen, and that we, the overcautious characters, would turn out being completely wrong - and those who oppose us, hopefully, should be right.