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To: Steve Lokness who wrote (70122)	6/2/2008 9:04:20 AM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541374

Iraq was never about terrorism Note to Karen: forget the analogies! :/ Boy, that's a wild approach. There's nothing "wild" about having a reasonable confidence level in your enemy and your approach to defeating the enemy before setting out on a risky path. I would call it "wild" to shoot first and ask questions later, which is what is being advocated. The consequences of GW could be rather daunting. The consequences of inappropriate action could be rather daunting, too, as I tried to illustrate in the analogy you mangled. When you're hell bent for leather, you don't think of the consequences of action, only the consequences of inaction and even those are considered only within a box of your own creation. You really want to put the consequences of GW down against economics? Economics was only an example of a discipline that had an orderly and objective approach to solving problems. I could have used my own, systems analysis, instead. Orderly and objective approach, that's all I'm asking for. With an orderly approach, you identify your objectives way before you run off and start doing risky things. I've asked several times on this thread for some statement of objectives. I've yet to get even an attempt at one. I can infer a tactic to stop man-made warming. But what's the objective behind that? I could infer reduced future human suffering, reduced future loss of human life, or retaining the planet's current characteristics for the sake of something beyond humanity. Is it any of those? Or something else? What? Then and only then, from the chosen objectives, whatever they may be, the best tactics are designed and chosen.