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To: cnyndwllr who wrote (21660)	10/1/2004 1:39:36 PM
From: Bruce L	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 23153

Re: The Nature of War Good to hear from you, Brother: I truly worried that you didn't like me anymore.(You hadn't responded for weeks.) I spent more than 8 full hours writing my Uxellodunum post <http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=20537333> - for you. When Caesar had to capture a hostile town the "hard way", it invariably followed that subsequent towns were "easier". An accepted principle that all Peoples have followed for ALL of recorded history. The first time American troops took a town, like Fallujah, it would be hard; there would be (a euphemism, we know) "collateral damage." Every subsequent town in the "triangle" would be easier. Overall, loss of innocent life would be minimized. As Fukuyama said: "German fascism" didn't collapse because of its internal contradictions; it died because Germany was bombed to rubble AND occupied..." Many innocents lost their lives, but OVERALL it was minimized; the result was good. I call our opponents in Iraq "islamo-fascists": members of a radically intolerant and antimodern doctrine. They too are not going away because of internal contradictions. To bomb them into rubble would be a good result. I say that we are brothers because: faced with the very same evil -not abstract, but real and up close - we would react ...as brothers would. Bruce