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To: slacker711 who wrote (69045)	5/28/2008 12:28:37 PM
From: Lane3	Respond to of 542139

Fine, I can see the logic in your position. I, too, understand your point. I'm just not willing to accept the inevitability of a huge reaction. Seems to me it takes leadership, which we may or may not get. I was positively surprised at how few anti-muslim attacks there were in the days directly after 9/11 That's a good example. If you recall, Bush came out and specifically spoke against a bad reaction there. What we got was too much, but not nearly as bad as it could have been. I was very disappointed in the leadership, otherwise. What we got was fear mongering rather than the "nothing to fear but fear itself" speech. But different leadership could mitigate the reaction. Sure, we Americans are spoiled wimps with anger management problems. And our politicians, under pressure to "do something, anything" would be lining up measures such as a draft whether or not there was anything that draftees could do about the problem. But I still think there's enough national character that constructive leadership would be effective and the kind of reaction you envision is not inevitable. Even if it were inevitable, it would still be our fault, our lack of character, triggered by but not solely a function of the evildoers doings.

To: slacker711 who wrote (69045)	5/28/2008 2:49:11 PM
From: Suma	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 542139

Tell me something that I cannot for the life of me fathom and I am serious about this. Unless you were the ruler or mullah of a country that was impervious to nuclear attack why would you decide to completely annihilate your people as you know that the first atom bomb dropped on any of our soil..... would result in the complete destruction of the country that did it. Do we not realize we carry the big stick THE BIGGEST of all sticks and have more bombs in our arsenal than any other country on the face of the earth. Save Russia and that is going to be debatable. We seem to make such a big deal of being threatened when we are so superior in military and retaliatory might than any nation on the earth. The same with Israel.. They have more atom bombs than probably any country in the middle east. I would be cautious about attacking them. Look what they do to Palestine every time a missile falls. It may kill a few Israeli's but there are many Palestinian to pay for it. Is there something that I am not seeing here ?????