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To: Neocon who wrote (151533)	11/11/2004 3:56:57 PM
From: Michael Watkins	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Look who is playing word games now. If there were no threat, why engage in containment? A biting dog kept in a yard is contained, and no threat to its neighbors. The threat seemed both clear and present, and the means of dealing with it seemed fragile over time. Even though I disagree with your premise completely, if for arguments sake I accepted it, what you are saying is that Bush - with all the political capital earned by the grisly 9/11 attacks - was impotent? Powerless to stop the erosion of the "means of dealing with the threat"? That's ludicrous, even so, its a popular talking point, however absurd.