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To: epicure who wrote (31487)	2/25/2004 8:34:38 PM
From: KyrosL	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 793640

10,000 fewer dead babies every year, if our infant mortality was the same as the average European country or Canada.

To: epicure who wrote (31487)	2/25/2004 8:40:25 PM
From: unclewest	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793640

You don't have to be an ostrich to have other priorities. Terrorism has not yet claimed that many victims in the US Talk about Ostriches. Don't take it personal, but that is the most bury your head in the sand comment I have seen lately. The world-wide terrorist movement intends to kill all Christians, kill all Jews and kill all Americans. The terrorist organization is world-wide, the war is world-wide, the casualties are world-wide...yet you confine your victim calculation to a single country. Add up the world-wide casualties of terrorism to get a handle on the problem.

To: epicure who wrote (31487)	2/26/2004 1:15:33 AM
From: KLP	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793640

Obviously, there is no use discussing this. If you do not yet see because there is no desire to see, you will not see. Reminds me of the Kill the Golden Goose story.

To: epicure who wrote (31487)	2/26/2004 1:35:40 AM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793640

You are discounting one factor, X. The maximum threat level and the chances of occurrence of most hazards like traffic accidents or most diseases has been fairly well quantified. The only exception would really be the chances of SARS or some such disease turning into a new pandemic, and the World Health Organization is marshalled to monitor and head off such an occurrence. It has troops and tools to fight off a pandemic. The maximum threat level of terrorism and its chances of occurrence are not exactly quantified and what we know is not comforting. Because unlike traffic accidents and disease, there is a very different set of variables at play - human cleverness and malice. The terrorists want to do us harm, and have no scruples about their methods. We know that if they had a suitcase nuke they could use, they would. That makes the threat quite different in both quantity and kind. What Bush is trying to do with the Bush Doctrine is set up a scheme of deterrence that might work on suicide bombers, by extending the net to their state sponsors.