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To: bela_ghoulashi who wrote (128785)	4/9/2004 9:08:22 AM
From: jttmab	Respond to of 281500

After the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, we didn't sit around trying to figure out how to keep ships from sinking. We started sinking their ships instead. Do you claim that there were no developments that followed to make Navy ships more survivable? And do you suppose that you can "sink" terrorists faster than they can make them? There's a small difference with a large effect when you compare GWOT with any other traditional military war. In a traditional war, e.g., WWI, WWII, Vietnam, Korea .... there was someone who can surrender [or agree to a cease fire] and the war was over. In GWOT, there is no one entity or person that can surrender and it's over. jttmab

To: bela_ghoulashi who wrote (128785)	4/9/2004 12:31:00 PM
From: carranza2	Respond to of 281500

The rationalization for having hearings now instead of later, as we did with respect to Pearl Harbor, is a lot different. We got into a classical symmetric war with Japan and Nazi Germany, one in which there were clearly defined actors and forces. The WOT is something else altogether--nebulous, asymmetric, without fronts or easily recognized combatants. We may be in the struggle for decades. Therefore, there is no reason to wait. And we live in a different world now. Since Vietnam and Watergate, there is a much more emphatic demand for accountability than before. We trust government less, so we demand more explanations. And we want them in internet time.