> act has been committed. Hopefully, no one will ever be stupid enough > to attempt to destroy New York or anywhere else with weapons of mass > destruction - but unfortunately, that's a risk we all have to live with.
No. It's a risk _I_ have to live with. And Bob, plus any other New Yorkers on the list. It is, rather noticeably, _not_ a risk you have to live with. That's really one of the central distinctions, isn't it. If your proposed containment policy goes wrong, we do the dying. That changes the calculus a little bit, doesn't it?
And you think the rest of the world will not feel (in some way or other) the consequences of US retaliation for the destruction of New York?
The non-NY'ers of the world may not do the dying, but they *will* feel the consequences. I mean, no city was destroyed in the Sept. 11 attack, but the rest of the world is still feeling the consequences of *that*.
Jeroen "Make love, not war" van Baardwijk
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