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To: lorne who wrote (3304)	1/14/2004 9:48:40 AM
From: ChinuSFO	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3959

Lorne, sometimes politics can be explained with simple examples which we can see easily. In 1984, when the Mayor of Boston came into office, he unleashed the police force to clear the streets of prostitutes. These prostitutes would openly solicit for customers even at traffic lights, sometimes with women in the cars which stopped at the traffic intersection. This caused a great deal of uproar amongst the general public. With a new Mayor moving in we had a vigourous police crackdown. We had regular police patrols at night (vigilance), and yes the open soliciting stopped. But did prostitution stop? Heck no. It only moved into back alleys, with the Johns now out in the open, walking around quietly and soliciting in public at night. Now if they had arrested those prostitutes (Osama) and put them behind bars then the Johns would not have anything to fall back on. War against prostitution would be something they would have been in a position to declare as won. Are you saying the similar id true with the war on terrorism. Your post did not indicate that.