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To: TimF who wrote (161493)	5/6/2005 6:57:29 AM
From: jttmab	Respond to of 281500

Maurice Winn submitted the idea that the ratio was relevant. My point was that if he was not asserting that the US military was acting as wanton murderers then the ratio is irrelevant. If he was asserting that the US military was a bunch of wanton murderers, then we could discuss whether or not the ratio was relevant. If he wasn't making that assertion than I had nothing to discuss, because I was talking about, and cared about, the reality of the situation not the fact that some people may perceive something about the situation. After re-reviewing the text. If that's the point that you thought you were making, you failed miserably at doing so. All I cared about was were the damn ratios [which made the review of the dialogue painfull]. And quite frankly I don't see the kill ratios, if they were known, to be relevant at all to the discussion under any circumstance. There was a small sense of nostalgia in it. The 'ol days of discussing issues sitting on the college green. Back in the days when we discussed great things under the illusion that we knew what we were talking about. jttmab