[chilepepper]

Pat has it wrong - the war won't metastize from Algeria to
Afghanistan, it will metastize into a war from Morocco to
Manila...
I think the way Bush/Powell/Rumsfield have walked the tightrope
so far is just about right. It seems the policy is to nail one terrorist
*real* good, then let the others 'see the light of redemptemption and
sin no more...'

[Pelham]

Pat has it wrong - the war won't metastize from Algeria to Afghanistan, it will metastize into a war from Morocco to Manila...

Agreed. But our heros manning the Neocon Armchair General Staff don't want to limit WWIII to the thousands of technicals whom we can identify. They want to see if we can't rouse all the world's indifferent Moslems from their slumbers, and turn all 1 billion of them into a united and bitter enemy of the United States. How could we fail to see the wisdom of that? "Let's drop the Big One, and see what happens..."