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To: Cogito who wrote (84694)	9/15/2008 10:17:56 PM
From: ManyMoose	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541580

Evidently you are OK with it happening here then, to peaceable people going about their own business. I am opposed to it happening here or over there. But better over there. Sorry if you saw my remark as condescending. It's just that your posts seem rather breathless now that Obama is slipping.

To: Cogito who wrote (84694)	9/16/2008 6:45:30 AM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 541580

So it's OK if thousands of Americans die and tens of thousands are grievously wounded, as long as it doesn't happen here? It seems to me that differentiating between attacks in our homeland and attacks elsewhere is relevant. What made 9/11 such a big deal was less the magnitude of the event but the fact that we were struck at home. It was like Pearl Harbor sixty some years earlier in that regard. Americans have been used to being safe on our own soil. Acknowledging difference does not imply value judgments about that difference, certainly not that deaths abroad are "OK." Fighting them "there" so that we don't have to fight them "here" was a deliberate strategy. I think there's a lot to be said for that notion. Whether invading Iraq was the best way to implement that notion is a matter separate matter from the making of the distinction.