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To: TobagoJack who wrote (60277)	2/11/2005 5:11:59 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

Jay, without too much thinking, I wonder whether a first-strike "back to the stone age" approach would change the situation significantly and attach an air of reality to the situation. <North Korea always negotiates through brinkmanship > Not that I'm advocating that, just pointing out that when push comes to shove and somebody lives, and somebody doesn't, those are the boundary conditions, and first principles, and fundamental forces of nature. It's quite frightening when one thinks of what these tools of destruction mean in reality - which have actually been demonstrated already. They are not simply theoretical. "The End of History" pertained not to the actual end of processes, but to the end of political system evolution. We perhaps have some large-scale processes to go through. More's the pity. I don't think a couple of nukes gives carte blanche. Mqurice PS: I would be careful not to misunderestimate a crusader with a belief in Armageddon. < sources in the Russian Ministry of Defense say Moscow has quietly put the Pacific Fleet and Rocket Forces on high alert to prevent any U.S. incursion into Russian airspace should the rhetoric degrade into action.> If true, the Russians are nervous.