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To: Ilaine who wrote (71381)	3/1/2011 8:50:57 PM
From: Metacomet	4 Recommendations Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 217542

Even nuclear option limited, as the only way to effectively deploy nuclear weapons requires missiles or aircraft to deliver. That's why nasty little countries specialize in terrorism. Waste a few young lives on all sides. Destroy a building or a few buildings. Then what? Which is why it is so disgusting to be a member of a society with all of these tools and a demonstrated willingness to use them against innocent civilians, often for no reason other than to gain domestic political advantage, (right Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld et al) To live in a country that employs the death penalty on its own citizens, practices torture directly, or by proxy, refuses medical care to its citizens and channels the vast majority of its wealth to a fraction of its population, in the 21st century, no less, gives any thinking person pause. But killing education in the US was an early objective, well achieved.

To: Ilaine who wrote (71381)	3/1/2011 11:37:35 PM
From: Jacob Snyder	6 Recommendations Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 217542

<no aircraft carriers, no cruise missiles, no remote drones, no tanks, no factories to manufacture same.> The Vietnamese didn't have any of those, and they defeated the U.S. Having learned nothing, we are repeating the experience with the Taliban, who have fought us to a bloody 10-year stalemate. Every winning guerrilla commander has said: The winners will be whoever has the support of the civilians on the battlefield. Nothing else matters. Numbers don't matter. Technology doesn't matter. Americans are in love with their gadgets, and especially their gee-whiz military gadgets, but these are useless, for either winning wars or making us safe. <Even nuclear option limited, as the only way to effectively deploy nuclear weapons requires missiles or aircraft to deliver.> When (not if) an American city is nuked, the delivery weapon will be a container ship, in a box labeled "office equipment". Or possibly smuggled over the border, by someone who thinks he's carrying a bale of marijuana. The vast majority of the millions of containers entering the U.S. are not inspected. We've never been able to stop more than a fraction of the drugs smuggled into the U.S. The only way to be truly safe, is to have nobody hate you (or your country) enough to want to kill you.