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To: michael97123 who wrote (188672)	6/7/2006 12:57:53 PM
From: cnyndwllr	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Michael, you can realistically promise "never again" when you're dealing with something that's entirely in your hands. When the thing is at least partially under the control of another person or group of persons, however, "never again" is a pipe dream. Whether there is or is not another major attack on a US city is not entirely within our control and it never will be. Not ever. We cannot protect millions of miles of territory, hundreds of thousands of water sources, schools, malls, and our transportation routes. We cannot identify and protect against every suicidal terrorist willing to spend years working and planing ways to cause us harm. Our enemy is just as smart as we are and he's not shackled by bureaucratic ineptitude where political cronies or kiss asses get promoted to positions of authority over those with real talent. And he doesn't have to undo all of our defenses; he just has to find one slightly weak link and slip though the crack. "Never again" is simply a story we tell our children so that they'll sleep at night while the fact is that there is NOTHING we can do to make that hope a viable reality. It is what it is and we just have to have the wisdom and the courage to live with it. Ed

To: michael97123 who wrote (188672)	6/7/2006 3:39:53 PM
From: Suma	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

Michael97123 My respect for you had just jumped a hurdle with regard to your last sentence. I do not know many who be big enough to reverse themselves and admit to being wrong. It rarely happens on S.I's boards where debate, accusations and ad hominems go on an on. I didn't know you were at the WTC.. I read a book this Winter on the findings and conclusions after a myriad of interviews with survivors... builders of the Towers themselves and it was very revealing. I could not put the book down. If you want the title I can look it up for you.