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To: carranza2 who wrote (15241)	3/12/2007 10:41:13 AM
From: foundation	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 218000

re: Terrorism, mostly, and the schemes of fanatics. ---------- ... sooner or later, in my view, we will have to survive without this little bit of fiction -- if we intend to survive in the reality based world. ... much as I had to leave teddy at home when entering the first grade, and Linus will have to, at some point, surrender his blanket. Clearly and simply -- the war against 'terror' is our war against the poor of the world -- who happen to squat atop the bulk of known global energy resources -- energy that we covet -- who happen to resist our confiscation of their resources and markets and self determination -- who do not possess comparable conventional standing armies and arsenals. ... we must renounce this fiction for one of two reasons: 1) ... we risk our humanity as we struggle with the contradiction of perceiving ourselves as a humane and civilized society (and country) while continuing to perpetrate heinous acts on poor, civilian populations. 2) ... we most assuredly will lose this "war" -- lest we define and explain it correctly to the American people for what it truly is -- an all out and bloody sprint to control oil and the survival of empire -- that we simply cannot lose and maintain our existence as presently defined and understood. In my view, the US population would eagerly embrace a clearly and accurately defined manichean agenda (spiced with appropriately religious, nationalist undertones), and we could proceed -- with clear and unfettered conscience -- with the task of carving a bloody path through the Middle East (and North Africa).* * ... which, in my view, would utterly fail, for myriad reasons, but that's a rant left for another time... ... or result, to creationist's delight, in the reality, if not the fable, of rapture.