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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (130489)	4/29/2004 4:44:58 PM
From: cnyndwllr	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 281500

Hawkmoon, the one sentence you quoted does seem to state the obvious, but the entire thought that it introduces is evidently less obvious to those of your persuasion. Let me repeat myself more completely than the line you excerpted: "Hawkmoon, the world's a dangerous place and it's going to stay that way for a long time. No matter what we do we cannot prevent more terrorist attacks in our homeland. That's just the way it is and we're going to have to accept it and get over attempting panicky, punitive actions that amplify the problems." What I said is true. The fact is that we're fighting perceptions and, in some cases the reality, that we're negatively impacting the everyday lives of Muslim/Arabs in the Middle East. That's a significant problem when those attitudes rise to the level that people are willing to die to change our involvement there, or simply to cause us harm because they hate us. What's your solution; hit someone and show them that "they are defeatable and that Allah is not with them?" You only look like a demagogue when you use that kind of rabid rhetoric. The very lifeblood of insurgencies and terrorists is the perception that an unjust and powerful force is negatively impacting the lives of the populations that they rely upon for support, concealment and spiritual reinforcement. You should recognize this but yet you want to teach them a lesson through the use of conventional military power AND PROVE THEIR ASSERTIONS. I'm glad you're not running this country-uh oh, that's right, like-thinking people are running this country.