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To: Dennis O'Bell who wrote (41226)	4/28/2004 3:15:46 AM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793955

If the inability to comprehend quantum mechanics dooms one, I daresay that a lot more of us are doomed than I'd heretofore realized. I think what the author was getting at (and by the way, I don't agree with him about anything in particular, just thought it was interesting) is that it's important to realize that Al Qaeda aren't like the Amish, they want to roll back the clock about some things but not everything. Although I suspect that nobody's actually sat down and asked them about this, e.g., in their fantasy future umma, will there still be cell phones and satellites, and if so, who will make them and take care of them? As for worrying about future deployments of WMD - I am pretty much 100% certain that one's comfort zone expands and contracts in inverse proportion to one's physical existence actually being somewhere that is more or less near the epicenter of a likely future target. I worry less than I used to, not because I feel that attacks are less likely, but that the more I learn about it, the more I realize that the capacity of terrorists to do harm is not so great as one might imagine, outside that epicenter. My husband's office is now 5-10 miles away from the Pentagon, which helps my state of mind. If he worked in the Pentagon, then I'd worry more.