ss <[email protected]> writes: > That is fine with me but you will have to excuse me. I have not read > most of your message and will not be doing so. I am not really > interested.
I'm saddened to hear that the discussion makes you so uncomfortable that you can't discuss the substance and can only make peripheral comments. However, until I hear some explanation of how, in a practical sense, a free society is to "prevent" terrorism and still remain a worthwhile society to live in -- or how it could manage it at all, even if it was willing to become hell on earth -- I'll have to keep making you uncomfortable. I'll point out that the US has now spent something on the order of a couple million dollars for every death we've had from terrorism without any obvious increase in security. We have, however, managed to drive our economy into the ground, thus allowing the terrorists to win without even continuing to fight very hard. Perhaps India can learn from our "success", but I fear it will not. The pressure to "do something", even at ruinous cost and without obvious effect, is powerful. Perry
