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To: Pukin Dog; Rokke; Travis McGee; ALOHA RONNIE; wretchard; Jeff Head; Cannoneer No. 4
HISTORY IS REPLETE with battles, campaigns, and wars that were lost because fundamental changes in the nature of warfare went unrecognized.

I think we're at such a moment now. Since anti-Americanism is a symptom of infection by the meme we fight (memes are self replicating, viral ideas), we're talking about something very new. Its vectors include religion, marxism, and media.

It's going to be interesting to see how we handle it. If we don't, we'll be extinct. I don't dispute our current approach, at least what is visible of it. But I think it's going to take something more creative. Right now we're just racing out to meet the barbarians at the gates. But the first lesson of 9/11 should have shown that there aren't any gates in this war.

What is our Manginot Line this time? It may be our unwillingness to manage global media in our own favor, but we can't touch it with our current laws. We can't touch it with our own current beliefs, either.

If we survive, it may never be revealed how it was accomplished. I am certain that it won't be a mechanical weapons system that neutralizes the meme that has been unleashed against us.

Something tells me we will survive, though.

35 posted on 05/31/2004 6:33:26 PM PDT by risk
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To: risk
"If we survive, it may never be revealed how it was accomplished. I am certain that it won't be a mechanical weapons system that neutralizes the meme that has been unleashed against us. "

I think you are exactly right. Except that there is no "if". We WILL survive.

37 posted on 05/31/2004 6:35:36 PM PDT by Rokke
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To: risk
"What is our Manginot Line this time?"

The Immigration & Naturalization Service as well as hard & fast Border Control.

Both overwhelmingly lacking.

40 posted on 05/31/2004 6:36:54 PM PDT by VaBthang4 ("He who watches over Israel neither slumbers nor sleeps")
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To: risk; El Sordo; campfollower; Jimmy Valentine's brother

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Praise GOD that...

President BUSH has promised...

during a BUSH Presidency,

as our own best self-protection...

against future Terrorist Attacks here at home...



FREEDOM's Return to:

Communist Vietnam
Communist North Korea
Communist Cuba


..as well as...


FREEDOM's Arrival to:

The entire Middle East..!!!


For this is THE Issue of Election Year 2004.


.."Will Americans vote for their own self-protection or their own self-destruction in Time of War..?"


BUSH stands ready to act prudently on our behalf.


Will we let him or deny him..?

.


66 posted on 05/31/2004 7:06:34 PM PDT by ALOHA RONNIE (Vet-Battle of IA DRANG-1965 http://www.LZXRAY.com)
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