To: Bilow who wrote (126329 ) 3/16/2004 2:53:14 AM From: NightOwl Respond to of 281500 Hellow Bilow,What you're doing is applying psychological reasoning to "explain" the behavior of the Arabs, but your reasoning is more than just faulty. By your own logic, the Spanish and British should also be flying planes into our buildings. They're not, so your reasoning fails as a "sufficient" condition for a foreign people to use terror against us. What? So I should use mathmatogic and electrical engineering to explain the behaviors of the human animal? <Hoo><Hoo> And I am quite sure that you don't have to worry about either the Spanish or the English coming after you ...unless you "Whig" out extra bodaciously. They're old former Top Dogs themselves with really great libraries and they have too much psychological reasoning to come after you as nations. ...Individually it's an entirely different matter. You've got tons of English and Spanish individuals ready and willing to come after you. You need to remember that you can't confuse Top Dog individuals with Top Dog nations. ...They operate in completely different time frames with entirely different tools for entirely different psychological reasonings. ...Nor obviously do all of them resort to blowing you up in the street. Some of them just steal your IP and turn around and sue you for infringement because your incredibly strong institutions give them the patent rights. :)What you're saying here is a mirror image of the circumstances of how we welcome foreign tourists in the US. In other words, we welcome them provided that they spend money and don't stay. That's all the welcome anyone could expect. Hell, that's as good as the welcome I can expect when visiting parts of my own country. (a) I have no need to remain top dog, it just doesn't matter that much. As I've stated before, I don't think that this is possible over the long run. See you are perfectly content to lob rocks at the Top Dog, even when you are it! <Hoo><Haa>By making this comment [ed., designating OBL as the "Legitimate" God Emperor] in response to me do you admit that our actions in Iraq have left our military less able to confront other significant threats? Uhhhh... No. No I don't see why that should be your conclusion. As far as I can tell our American Foreign Legion is perfectly capable of packing up and moving where ever we want it to go with far more power, experience and competence than ever in it's history. ...I was thinking something more along the lines of: When stuck in the Deadly Dichotomy of a limited existence it never hurts to consider the unthinkable, because it is probably the only fun you are ever going to have. 0|0