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   From: stderr2@backpacker.com   
      
   stan@temple.edu wrote:   
   >   
   > In nj.politics "Bill Bonde ( the oblique allusion in lieu of the frontal   
   attack )"  wrote:   
   > >   
   > > Post 9/11, we decided that supporting terrorism was enough for the US to   
   > > act. Saddam supported terrorism and was an incurable malignancy sitting   
   > > in the heart of the Middle East, the heart from which the red blood of   
   > > terrorism flows. How you could argue that leaving that there and not   
   > > surgically removing it, I can't understand.   
   >   
   > As does Iran, N. Korea, Syria, Jordon, and a long list of other countries.   
   > Where does it end?   
   >   
   I can't believe that you were around on 9/11/01 and you are wondering   
   why anyone is taking this terrorism business seriously.   
      
   Jordan is an American ally and is working to deal with terrorist   
   problems. Saudi Arabia has come around too, not in any small part to   
   what's happened in Iraq. Syria and Iran and big problems. There is hope   
   that by making the point that certain things, supporting international   
   terrorism for example, are not acceptable, and that a price will be   
   paid, will get rogue nations to behave.   
      
   We had better succeed. There is a limited amount of time before   
   biotechnology and other changes in the ability of humans to destroy   
   ourselves become available to average non-state actors, and we've seen   
   that with the kooks in Japan who attacked the subway with sarin that   
   hyper-nihilism is very capable of large scale catastrophe.   
      
      
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