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To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (51002)	9/13/2006 11:52:01 AM
From: Alan Smithee	Respond to of 90947

We must recognize that terrorism poses a frightening and tragic but manageable threat to the United States. Gingrich, Podhoretz and other panic mongers do us a huge disservice by exaggerating its danger. The only way the current struggle could ever become a world war is if American leaders followed their advice and escalated our response into a war between the West and Islam. As we mourn our dead, we must remember that we have more power than our enemies to worsen our fate. For both the dead and the living, we must make sure that does not happen. What the writer disregards is the danger that Islamic terrorists will acquire nuclear or biological weapons. That risk alters the calculus considerably, since they clearly would use those weapons if they got their hands on them. Ted: This ain't 1972, when these nutbars were satisfied with hijacking TWA 727's or dumping old men in wheel chairs into the ocean.