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To: Lane3 who wrote (85358)	9/19/2008 1:17:36 AM
From: Cogito	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541696

>>I didn't realize that the question was one of feasibility. I just don't know enough to have an opinion on feasibility. I don't know that there are any feasible options.<< Karen - There are surely no feasible options for ensuring that we will never have another terrorist attack on American soil. As a person who advocates feasibility studies as much as you do, I'm sure you agree that implementing policies that are infeasible makes no sense. I believe that applies to the "fight them there instead of here" policy. I don't see how to separate the abstract question of whether there is some logic in the idea of the policy from its complete infeasibility. Sure there appears to be a kind of logic to it. It's an illusion of common sense logic that makes it so appealing. But the logic is faulty, as I think I've already shown. - Allen