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To: i-node who wrote (927327)	3/23/2016 5:29:14 PM
From: puborectalis	Respond to of 1573867

"I think NATO may be obsolete," Trump said in a Bloomberg interview. "NATO was set up a long time ago, many, many years ago. Things are different now. ... We're paying too much. As to whether or not it's obsolete, I won't make that determination." Clinton advocated for the opposite approach, saying the US needs to strengthen its alliances. She said that turning our back on NATO partners would be playing right the hands of Russian President Vladimir Putin. "Putin already hopes to divide Europe," Clinton said in her speech at Stanford University. "If Mr. Trump gets his way, it will be like Christmas in the Kremlin." "It will make America less safe and the world more dangerous," she added.

To: i-node who wrote (927327)	3/23/2016 5:36:17 PM
From: bentway	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1573867

>>Unless you have something new on the subject you have no way of knowing yours or anyone's likelihood of being killed by these people.<< You call yourself a statistician? LOL! What sort of crap accountant ARE you? --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- You’re more likely to be fatally crushed by furniture than killed by a terrorist washingtonpost.com Excerpt: Consider, for instance, that since the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, Americans have been no more likely to die at the hands of terrorists than being crushed to death by unstable televisions and furniture. Meanwhile, in the time it has taken you to read until this point, at least one American has died from a heart attack. Within the hour, a fellow citizen will have died from skin cancer. Roughly five minutes after that, a military veteran will commit suicide. And by the time you turn the lights off to sleep this evening, somewhere around 100 Americans will have died throughout the day in vehicular accidents – the equivalent of “a plane full of people crashing, killing everyone on board, every single day.” Daniel Kahneman, professor emeritus at Princeton University, has observed that “[e]ven in countries that have been targets of intensive terror campaigns, such as Israel, the weekly number of casualties almost never [comes] close to the number of traffic deaths.”

To: i-node who wrote (927327)	3/23/2016 7:45:48 PM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573867

Um, your grasp of statistics needs a little work. What you and your ilk want to do, and have done, is to radically change the country on the off chance that terrorists will strike. Despite the fact that their threat to Americans in America is very small. The threat is higher in some countries, but that is why State puts out alerts. If it is really a fear of terrorism, the odds are much higher that it will be a domestic terrorist that does the deed than a foreigner. And that person is more likely to align Christian than Muslim. And be affiliated with a right wing cause than any other. Yet the focus is all on other alignments. You might feel better if someone you know is killed by a domestic, rightwing, Christian terrorist than a follower of Islam. I mean, dead is dead, but...