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To: Dale Baker who wrote (12327)	2/16/2006 5:26:50 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 543674

The more extreme forms of the domino theory where very dubious, and perhaps even dishonest. OTOH the thought that communists would make further advances if we left Vietnam was true, although only in a very limited sense. Needless to say, depicting our adversary as an all-powerful, all-evil juggernaut that will inexorably spread outward is an exaggeration at best I was not depicting Al Qaida as such by my use of the Mordor analogy. In fact recognizing the possibility that some might take it that way I made sure to say - "There are of course major differences between the analogy and the real world situation. Most note-ably that Mordor presented and existential threat to the rest of Middle Earth while Al Qaeda, or other terrorist or insurgent groups do not present an existential threat to the US (at least not an obvious or immediate one, and probably not even a hidden longer term existential threat)." My analogy was strictly limited to the idea of "fight them there or you'll have to fight them here". I wasn't saying that Al Qaeda was in any other way like Mordor (there might be a few similarities, mostly that they are both evil but the differences are very extensive), or that the US was similar to Gondor or Rohan.