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Politics : Fair and Balanced-'Duties Of a Democracy' -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: RMF who wrote (124)	8/24/2006 2:02:21 AM
From: ~digs	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1262

many people do not realize that the perpetual war on terrorism is merely a 21st century version of the game "Whack-a-Mole" ...kinda like the war on drugs ------- Colloquial usage The term Whac-a-Mole, or Whack-a-mole, has been used in the computer and networking industry to describe the phenomenon of fending off recurring spammers, vandals or miscreants. The connotation is that of a repetitious and futile task: each time the attacker is "whacked" or kicked off of a service, he only pops up again from another direction. Also used in the military to refer to opposing troops who keep re-appearing: Whack the mole here and it dies, but another pops up in a different spot en.wikipedia.org