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To: Jacalyn Deaner who wrote (10142)	5/27/1999 6:12:00 PM
From: goldsnow	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 17770

It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid. George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)

To: Jacalyn Deaner who wrote (10142)	5/27/1999 9:46:00 PM
From: Hawkmoon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 17770

Jacalyn, You have a very extreme and dispondent perspective, which I guess I can understand when we see so much of our technology pilfered by a country with 1 billion people, while we find ourselves paying for our lethargic and impotent diplomacy in dealing with Milosevic. But I have to ask you what edge having neutron bomb technology gives to China? Do you know what a "neutron bomb" is and what it was designed for?? As for Russia, I think what Moscow wants and longs for is to once be considered politically "relevant" to the world stage. As I've stated, the Russians have had an entire brigade of troops deployed to Bosnia as peacekeepers and have done quite well from all accounts (which seem sketchy from my research). Give Russia a stake in Serbia and should the peace fail they will be as much to blame as NATO. Maybe I'm being naieve here, but the Russian gov't knows exactly how bad their economy is and how they require the west to assist them. In exchange, they would like to be given some political respect, deserved or not. I really don't understand how you perceive that nuclear or biological weapons will be used against the US without our possessing the ability to respond in kind. We have plenty of weaponry with which to retaliate and destroy the entire planet several times over(that should be enough, I'd think). The only issue will be whether we actually will be able to identify the party who launches the attack should it be carried out by terrorists. That could prove problematic. But y'know, I've made my peace with the lord above. It's not the quantity of life, but the quality that matters. All of humanity has two things in common, birth and death. The only thing that differs is the quality of the journey in between. So far I've chosen not to spend my waking days constantly looking behind me to see who has it in for me, nor do I worry about whether the apocalypse comes this year, next year, or two hundreds years from now. When it comes, it comes. You sound as if you base your views upon a religious perspective. If so, then you should be fully aware that the ultimate value in possessing faith in a higher being is the freedom from fear that faith provides. Regards, Ron

To: Jacalyn Deaner who wrote (10142)	5/28/1999 1:40:00 AM
From: Andy Thomas	Respond to of 17770

Jacalyn I enjoy your posts and agree pretty much with everything you contribute. I do think that the "willingness to sacrifice" in the context of "larger gains" is a concept foreign to much of our citizenry, or at the very least, our media. Maybe the resilience of the US will shine through once again in the trying times I'm fairly certain are to follow from here... one can hope, no? Question: Are the immigrants of today made of generally the same stuff of the immigrants of yesterday (Irish-Chinese rail workers, for example)? That's the million dollar question, because the loyalty of these people will come into play if we enter into those "difficult times ahead" so many of us seem to sense from the center of our marrow. FWIW Andy