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To: que seria who wrote (41958)	11/23/2003 2:05:52 PM
From: TobagoJack	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74559

Hello que-seria, Thank you for your response and methodical logic. I find no fault with what you wrote and I am in agreement. I do have some observations that will particularly impact how I will allocate capital. <<The only people I see in a position to prevent such an eventuality are moderate, freedom-loving Arabs who inform on Al Quaeda to prevent it. I doubt that will happen>> … I think you are right and correct. I think there are not many such folks, and they will unlikely be able to stand up to AQ for very long in any determined fashion with any material result leading to any reasonable solution. <<I expect most such persons can't bear to turn over their Muslim brothers to the U.S.>> … I think they are as good as dead. <<If U.S. cities are destroyed, the U.S. will morph before their eyes>> … I think the war has started but the realization that this is so is not yet pervasively accepted, and the market prices have not discounted anything more than minor inconveniences. <<None of this implies any endorsement of past or current U.S. foreign policy, especially in the Middle East>> Stop beating around the bush and talking around corners ;0) I believe for many overseas, U.S. foreign policy in fact is the crux of the matter, and as long as there is no national discussion on what is truly an issue given that folks overseas view it as an issue regardless of whether the domestics are aware or care about, then war against fundamentalism by fundamentalism, the conflict that by definition cannot be fundamentally won, is the only other possible response that avoids the question. The inevitable response to a powerfully hijacked foreign policy is an inexorably near-complete hijacked religion. The strange silence of discussion is moving all inexorably to TeoTwawKi of a nuclear kind. I happen to believe in not much of anything that claims fundamental this or essential that, except the two atoms hydrogen and oxygen, what is, can and may be, and that I must maneuver to survive by discerning what should and must be. Chugs, Jay