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Politics : High Tolerance Plasticity -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Suma who wrote (21765)	10/8/2004 2:47:02 PM
From: kodiak_bull	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 23153

Suma, Actually, I think terror is terror is terror. A kid in east L.A. who gets mowed down in a drive by shooting is, technically, a victim of a "crime," but it's impossible for me to see the difference between that and "terror." Random, nasty violence. I thought it odd that the families of the 3,000 people who went to work on 9/11 and didn't come home received such excellent financial benefits from our government (that would be us), but the family of a guy who took a subway train in a different direction and was pushed in front of a train got a shrug and a half inch notice in Section 3. You live in a suburb, you have a low level of terror; you live in an urban setting, it's higher. You live in Bensonhurst or Jamaica Plain or North Philly, it's higher still. You live in Gaza or Mindanao, it's higher still. If you live in a democracy, you have a low level of terror, but if you live in Venezuela or Argentina, it's higher. If you live on the edge of war in the Sudan, it's much worse. If you live under the rule of law (generally), you're comfortable, but if you live in Russia and are trying to do business in Vladivostok, nyet so goodski. My point was that 25 million people lived under a reign of terror for 20 + years with Saddam. They never knew when they or a relative would disappear, and the 300,000 mass graves in the pictures, the bones and shards tell the tale very vividly. To say they now live in terror, or that if the Americans left they could "handle" it, is not the truth, and it takes extreme naivete to believe those interviewees' conclusions. Kb