On Mon, 17 Mar 2003, Gautam Mukunda wrote: > I worry about them too, of course. Heck, I'm one of > them.
I was thinking more of the wisdom of our political leadership - whom I still can't bring myself to trust - than the safety of my fellow civilians. But that's been done to death, so I won't reiterate it here. > But the only way I see this working out well > for the US and the world is a quick, clean, and > overwhelming victory on the part of the United States > and its allies. You can guarantee that France and > Germany will pounce on every report of mistakes or > civilian casualties as a way of inflaming the Arab > world against the US, as will (of course) various > malefactors in the Arab/Islamic world. This only > works not just if we win (which is virtually > guaranteed) but win spectacularly and immediately. We'll see what happens in a couple of days, I guess. Pondering the vagaries of human psychology, it seems to me that a stunning and spectacular victory might work as badly against us as somewhat prolonged and messy one. People fight an irresistable force by stabbing it in the back. Marvin Long Austin, Texas Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Poindexter & Ashcroft, LLP (Formerly the USA) http://www.breakyourchains.org/john_poindexter.htm _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
