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To: Road Walker who wrote (177355)	11/3/2003 2:05:51 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573562

JF, Would I rather pay for a meal for 10,000 homeless folks in NYC than drop one bunker buster bomb? Yes. The ratio of social spending to defense is already 4:1. Seems like you'd rather see that ratio increase. Guess what? It's already going to increase, thanks to these free-spending politicians in Washington. Prescription drug benefit, Ted Kennedy's education bill, baby boomers retiring, the clouds of Hillary-care on the horizon. All these budget-busters are going to make the cost of Iraq look like chump change. The war on terror is a joke, you don't fight ghosts with tanks Fine, then argue for better intelligence (which Clinton helped to gut in the 90's). Argue for better homeland security, and forget about appeasing the overzealous privacy nuts. Argue for more reliance on well-trained special forces that can hunt down the terrorists wherever they may hide. And argue for a stronger foreign policy that holds the U.N. to its charter for world peace and security. Don't pretend that 9/11 wasn't the single most horrifying act to occur on American soil, that it didn't paralyze the most metropolitan city in the world and change its skyline forever. Don't pretend something worse can't happen in a free nation with open borders (that we'd rather keep open, contrary to what Jimmy Mac wishes for). And don't pretend that fear is just a condition we can turn off like a light. We live in a relative paradise compared to the rest of the world. Is is so wrong to want to keep it that way? Or should we wallow in enough self-pity to handicap us until we become just like the "rest of the world"? Tenchusatsu