New War Likelly to Be Less visible

Washington Post ^ | Sunday, Sept. 23, 2001; 1:21 p.m. EDT | Deb Riechmann

[garyhope]

New War Likely to Be Less Visible By Deb Riechmann Associated Press Writer Sunday, Sept. 23, 2001; 1:21 p.m. EDT WASHINGTON

[garyhope]

Find the right guys and kill them quietly or just make them disappear. Much more PC and less likely to cause a "peacenik" demo.

[matcrazy]

Sure - this will be rather secret intelligence and special forces operation then real war watched on CNN.

[Intolerant in NJ]

New War Likelly to Be Less visible...the advent of psychotropic medication thirty years ago, more or less, led to the naive assumption that eventually even the most severely mentally ill individual could be cared for outside of psychiatric hospitals. The fantasy has failed to become reality in large part because, once patients are stabilized on medication and released from hospitals, they often begin to feel so well that they eventually stop taking their medication and deteriorate in functioning, often ending back in hospital or worse - living on the streets or dead. Right now we are at a patriotic high, set to track down and eliminate those responsible for the WTC outrage, but IMO this is going to be a long war, fought sporatically as targets become available, fought in unconventional ways such as financial terrorism, and fought often in secret. We are undoubtedly going to face additional terrorist attacks, and some of them will succeed. I'm hoping we can maintain our determination and focus, that in the quiet times between the military actions and homeland attacks we don't begin feeling so well that we're tempted to let down our guard and revert to naive PC negotiations, temporizing and compromise - to stop taking our medicine...