--- David Hobby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Since his actions are producing the conditions for > MORE terrorism rather than less, this is asking a > bit much. > THERE IS NO WAR ON TERROR. The United States has > fewer than > 10000 casualities, civilian and military, since > September 2001 > or whenever. Sorry, but we have not been hurt > enough to > justify treating this as a war. Having Bush call it > a war > does not make it one. > > ---David
Maybe you think so. I lived two blocks north of the World Trade Center site for a year. Let's just say that I have less than no sympathy for any such view. Let's see how many New Yorkers think we're not at war. How many of the soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan. How many diplomats dealing with daily security threats. How many people in Homeland Security seeing the threats we face every week. As for the argument that his actions are bringing us more terrorism, not less - let's see: In 2001 they killed 3000 Americans in the center of the two most important cities in the United States. In 2002 they killed several hundred Australians in Indonesia, a Third World Muslim-majority country. In 2003 Al Qaeda's most important operation has been killing a few Muslims inside Saudi Arabia. If that's _more_ terrorism, well, I can handle that. The Bush Administration's cordon sanitaire has been rather astonishingly effective. The noose seems to be tightening with extraordinary effectiveness. Had you told me, on September 12th, that _no_ significant terrorist attack on the United States would be launched in the one and a half years after the attack, I would have told you that such a suggestion was absurd. No Administration could possibly act with the skill and resolution necessary to make such a thing possible. Except one did. ===== Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Freedom is not free" http://www.mukunda.blogspot.com __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
