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To: Ilaine who wrote (142236)	8/1/2004 6:21:17 PM
From: Sig	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

<<<NYC TO DEPLOY 'FULL ARRAY' OF COUNTERRORISM TACTICS">> Terrorism 101: Final exam. Blue book. I5 minutes allowed per question. Q1. You are GWB. An airplane has been hijacked and flown off course out of Kennedy It has a load of 300,000 lbs of jet fuel and 256 American passengers and there is no communication with the hijackers. And no idea of what they plan to do. There is an F-15 with live missiles trailing it and it is still over a densely populated area. There are also ground-to-air missile sites tracking the airplane. What orders do you give to the F-15 pilot and to the missile site ? Q 2:(3 parts) 1: Al Jeezera shows a video of OBL claiming he has planted a nuclear bomb in the LA basin set to explode in 48 hours. How will you verify this information.? 2: Discuss three ways to counter the threat or reduce its effect along with the estimated costs and time schedule required to vacate the cities. 3. In 30 words or less, discuss how Kerry would handle these items differently than GWB. Sig

To: Ilaine who wrote (142236)	8/2/2004 7:05:54 AM
From: Neocon	Respond to of 281500

All societies have some form of political organization, but they do no all engage in the systematic study of politics. More importantly, they do not all do so in a manner that is particularly rigorous. The closest thing to a scientific treatment of politics that I am aware of in the ancient world in Aristotle's "Politics". Christ spoke of ethics, but very little, if at all, of politics, per se. Whatever he said on such topics is recorded as aphorisms, not systematic study. And the principal message is the Gospel, not dicta about marriage or the obligation to civil authorities.