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To: RetiredNow who wrote (203899)	9/24/2004 1:39:00 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Respond to of 1576022

MM, by the way, JF's point-of-view is that terrorism isn't as big of a deal as we make it out to be. If you do the math, 3,000 people dying on 9/11 is small compared to the thousands who die in car crashes every year, for instance. The chances of someone dying due to terrorism is very, very low, according to him. Hence we shouldn't be living in constant fear, or sacrificing billions of dollars and over a thousand American lives chasing "ghosts." In other words, I don't think appeasement is what JF is preaching. Instead, he's preaching realism, but the problem is that it all depends on what your definition of "reality" is. Tenchusatsu

To: RetiredNow who wrote (203899)	9/24/2004 2:34:21 PM
From: Road Walker	Respond to of 1576022

re: In your happy world, if we just enage in a program of appeasement, then everything will be just fine. Appeasement, in Iraq? LOL. Did you forget we conquered and occupied their country, and they want us out? re: These types of people have an appointment with death and we need to make sure they arrive on time Then why didn't we get "these kind of people" when they were concentrated at Tora Bora? When Bush could have had vengance for the 9/11 victims? When we could have had the leaders that were responsible for 90% of world wide terrorist attacks (X Israel and now Russia). Now that opportunity is gone. No, I'm anything but an appeaser. I'm for getting them where they are, not creating them where they are not. And that's what's going to continue to happen the longer we are in Iraq. John