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To: stockman_scott who wrote (126692)	3/20/2004 7:46:58 PM
From: Sig	Respond to of 281500

<<<This approach also requires a sort of global spider web — a set of international and interfaith alliances bonded by mutual trust and purpose. Such a true coalition of the willing would have the collective intelligence and resourcefulness needed to stop the swarms. While Spain's incoming prime minister, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, intends to pull Spanish troops out of Iraq, he has said he would back efforts in Iraq and elsewhere as part of a United Nations enterprise. So would much of the world.>>> Before placing trust in the UN let us find what happened to the $10 to $40 bil collected on behalf of Iraqis from the oil for food program and which seems to have "gone missing" And observe how the UN has stood by their word in doing something serious about Saddam or in setting up camp in Iraq. <<< Just as Hercules needed the help of his nephew Iolaus to kill the Hydra, the United States will not conquer the Islamic terror without the popular support of its allies. The jihadists are betting America will try to go it alone.>>> America is not trying to go it alone. The US sought all the allies possible before taking action and will welcome any volunteer help. America is preparing in the event we are left to do it alone. IMO there is far too much short term thinking applied to the problem. If we have to get heavily involved in Indonesia or the Philippines and Europe comes under attack, then its sorry, we can only send a few symbolic troops to help out there. And if Venezuela stops producing oil guess which countries are going to receive a major share of Iraqi oil during the shortage. Japan knows, and will furnish troops to Iraq Sig

To: stockman_scott who wrote (126692)	3/21/2004 2:45:25 AM
From: boris_a	Respond to of 281500

A Leaner, Meaner Jihad Excellent article. "She found that eliminating the "central actors" — that is, cell members who have the most ties to other cell members and to other groups — has actually spurred terrorists to adapt more quickly, and has been less effective in the long run than eliminating less-central foot soldiers. Thus assassinations of leaders (a favorite Israeli tactic) may be counterproductive, in addition to causing public revulsion." When the new came that AQs Nr 2, Al-Zawahiri (or so) is about to being captured (a hoax), stock markets immediately ticked up. So the markets (a good representative of collective political thinking) are obviously not in grade to correctly discount reality.