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To: Taro who wrote (244643)	8/3/2005 9:35:33 AM
From: Road Walker	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1571324

re: Anyway, "The World Stage" is the problem. No, the reaction is the problem. 9/11 caused two wars, the Patriot act (giving up our freedoms), a wedge between NATO members, marginalizing the UN, wider US budget deficits, red alerts, and mass fear. Exactly the reaction bin Laden was trying for... he doesn't care a whit for the people killed in the Twin Towers, one way or another. But if there wasn't a "Global Terrorist Threat" before 9/11, there probably is now. And that's mostly the result of the reaction, not the action itself. John