RE: Yes it's off topic but who cares right now.
You're assuming the original act was revenge. Which part of "this is an act of War" don't you understand? The death toll of this act is projected at twice the number killed in Pearl Harbor. This is a war of survival. I, for one, am not going to go quietly. -Al -----Original Message----- From: Patrick Greenwell [mailto:patrick@cybernothing.org] Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2001 8:11 PM To: Los, Ralph Cc: 'Dmitri Krioukov'; 'Arman Khalili'; 'nanog@merit.edu' Subject: RE: Yes it's off topic but who cares right now. On Thu, 13 Sep 2001, Los, Ralph wrote:
True, there is no taking back what happened, but if GW issued an act of war, and did some re-arranging of the middle-east and the like, and places like Afganistan, Iraq, and the Palestinian militant states DISAPPEARED forever - no one, especially this blue-blooded American would shed a tear...and I as one...would see all the psycho-terrorists to hell.
Revenge begets revenge.
One way to look at it is that our response needs to be more sophisticated than 'simple revenge' to have a hope of making any difference at all. Let's just hope the "known to quickly expire" attention of the American public can hang with it. "Rowland, Alan D" wrote:
You're assuming the original act was revenge. Which part of "this is an act of War" don't you understand? The death toll of this act is projected at twice the number killed in Pearl Harbor.
This is a war of survival. I, for one, am not going to go quietly.
-Al
-----Original Message----- From: Patrick Greenwell [mailto:patrick@cybernothing.org] Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2001 8:11 PM To: Los, Ralph Cc: 'Dmitri Krioukov'; 'Arman Khalili'; 'nanog@merit.edu' Subject: RE: Yes it's off topic but who cares right now.
On Thu, 13 Sep 2001, Los, Ralph wrote:
True, there is no taking back what happened, but if GW issued an act of war, and did some re-arranging of the middle-east and the like, and places like Afganistan, Iraq, and the Palestinian militant states DISAPPEARED forever - no one, especially this blue-blooded American would shed a tear...and I as one...would see all the psycho-terrorists to hell.
Revenge begets revenge.
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