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To: KonKilo who wrote (68941)	5/28/2008 7:58:12 AM
From: quehubo	Read Replies (6) \| Respond to of 542169

I certainly would not want to live in a world where a rogue nation like Iran has the capability of attacking is through a terrorist group with WMD. Can we prevent this 100% probably not. Are we doing a good enough job right now? Probably not, it seems Iranian religious fanatics are is hell bent on destroying their nation in the pursuit of projecting radical Islam. Where this will lead to who knows. Pakistan? Yikes a country half filled with radicals and nuclear armed. I think it is quite foolish to compare our resolve after Pearl Harbor to one where the US soil has multiple WMD attacks. WWII resulted in very few civilian US deaths. Our economy was brought out of 10+ years of a severe depression. The USA was filled with happy workers, at least white men and women. Have you read The Good War by Studs Terkel? Imagine an attack on Manhattan, London and Ras Tanura in SA. the financial markets collapse and oil flow stops from the SA. Imagine no one knows when the next attack will come and where the bombs came from. When people dont have food, dont have gasoline and dont have jobs it wont be like WWII. In WWII we exported oil. I am not saying the USA will give up, I am saying your analogy is not well reasoned. I am saying a handful of fanatics can cause enough devastation that we should go to extreme efforts to prevent it.