To: TobagoJack who wrote (58124 ) 4/13/2006 1:55:08 AM From: shades Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 110194 hello shades, from where i sit in HK, the so-called Jihadist terrorism is nothing but an extension of a 1,000 year conflict that cannot end, a distraction, and nothing more. Oh not so fast my dear General - I hear radiation clouds even affect the gods up in the heavens - now I thought you told me last year you liked that movie with greg peck - On the Beach -imdb.com they even fled to australia - but it didn't save thier ass did it - yes an end is possible - perhaps even likely given our current course. Now toxic pollution may get a lot of us in china, and heart disease from one red lobster too many in america, maybe even global warming over centuries will get a lot of us too or perhaps a meteor like the dinosaur - but tomorrow - a few crazies have the ability to blow up human life all over the planet in less than a few hours eh? In fact they have enough fun to blow up the planet for human life about 300 times over eh? Gotta make sure if we do the job - its done right! We may cure the pollution and global warming, have a missle defense for the meteor, fix aging and heart disease with genetic medicine - but what of the nukular issue to mine and your mortality? What progress is being made there? Now Chen sitting back in HK drinking his blue drink on the beach probably not ready to die for allah and have his 7 virgins in heaven - but when the radiation clouds from a few thousand nuclear missles come your way from a guy who did beleive that - what you gonna do? Now for someone who told me IRAN war was certainty, and Bush and co talking about dropping nukular - well you have a lot more faith in things being the same as the past - but I see lots of differences from the past. War in the past could not assure total destruction of all human life on the planet - today that is very real possibility - it goes with your whole goldbug thinking - the world changes around you - but like the gold pebble in the stream - you are a solid unchanging rock of inflexibility. General chen - a tuck everlasting.