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To: Cogito who wrote (51194)	3/1/2008 5:34:22 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 544045

But the statement I was responding to included a reference to Chicken Little, so I should have realized that you were referring only to the people who get hysterical about either problem. Is that a fair interpretation of what you said? Yes, that's a fair interpretation. Nice critical reading, albeit belated. <g> I do think, however, that there's a significant difference between "catastrophic" and "existential." Since we've already taken that trip down the garden path and thus have some small investment in it, I submit that you're making too much of the catastrophic/existential thing. But if you want to make an issue of it, I don't think your POV would prevail. First of all, a worldwide caliphate is not existential in the sense of humanity although it is in the sense of western culture. GW, OTOH, is, in the minds of some, existential for humanity. Taken to the worst imagined extreme, GW is potentially more existential than the caliphate. Second, none other that Bill Clinton has called GW "existential." I found that just by scanning the first page of Google results. I also found several references to Gore using that label but no direct quotes. Not worth looking further but I would not be surprised if he said it. global warming may have significant negative consequences There you go. And so may Islamist imperialism.