It looks like it, thank goodness.
Maybe this will draw the nations together in an integrated strategy
against terrorists.
Then again, one person's terrorist is another's "freedom fighter."
But technology ups the stakes. Will the next successful attack be
nuclear, chemical, biological, or a 747?
Tom
On Sunday, September 16, 2001 at 13:50, Doggre@xxxxxxx <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote on "Re: [OM] [OT] Afganistan thinking," saying..
> In a message dated 9/16/01 7:38:20 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
> Tom@xxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
>
> >snip
> > I hope that reason prevails and that careful application of force and
> > many other measures will be used. The US has almost all the world on
> > its side right now, mainly from sympathy, partly from fear. This
> > momentum should be used wisely.
>
> And I think it will be, Tom. Democrats, Republicans, and the Secretary of
> Defense are all on the news this morning speaking of a war mainly of
> intelligence, fought mainly in the shadows. You can be sure it will be an
> international effort. Most folks won't hear much about what is happening.
> And Dick Gephardt, Democrat, spoke about the fact that we have to change our
> way of thinking, and be very smart about this. It's a new world.
>
> Not that we won't use blunt force, if necessary. The USS Cole left drydock
> yesterday. She's back in the fleet.
>
> Rich
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