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To: Sig who wrote (125428)	3/1/2004 6:15:18 PM
From: Jacob Snyder	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

<Kindly explain why 99% of the Americans will cheer for, and support, and hope for a USA win against a foreign team.> I think you said something profound, there. Without meaning to, but you still get credit. For most Americans, the War On Terror, is just like watching the Olympics. Sure, a few people actually watched the Towers fall, and a (very) small proportion of us are in uniform, dodging RPGs in Iraq. But for almost all of us, it happens on TV, to someone else. The only real, and personal effect it has, is when we have to take off our shoes at the airport, or some other trivial inconvenience. Almost all of us assess our personal risk of being casualties in this war, as approximately zero. So far, anyway. This war is not personal. It's Out There, Elsewhere, happening to Other People. It's a contest on TV, like the Olympics. With medals awarded at the end. Perhaps I should stop making historical, theological, ideological arguments against this war. Perhaps I need to make it personal. Print up 500 copies of the bodies of dead Iraqi civilians, and dead American soldiers, and put them up all over town. Point out that in my city and State, we are laying off teachers, cutting back on snow removal, closing State Parks, don't have enough police to investigate all the rapes reported, all while pissing away 200B$ on a war of aggression.