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Fairly profound reading, but a slight bit skewed.

The terrorists are fighting against a known quantity; a country;
Our country; Our Nation; Our army and our people.

We are fighting against the unknown, a group that disappears
at will, into the night.

We're fighting a hypothetical; battling against a hypothetical force.
We are fighting "what ifs"; imagined quantities and fears instilled
by suggestion and imagination alone. A large percentage of the
time, we are our own enemy.

This fine web site, with all the intellect and mental power that is
brought forth to these forums, we read posts that relate the fears.

One claiming the possibility of water supply contamination, another
regarding power supplies and grids. Nuclear power as a target, and
our dams. Anthrax, sarin gas and various plagues.

Those that promote giving up rights and liberties for security, and
those of us that fear the loss of rights and liberties more than the
loss of any security.

We have become a nation of fear, and we are afraid to admit it.

Unlike Hitler, the terrorists are not bound to a nation or country.
They can roam like gypsies, striking at random. The unfortunate
complication it creates, is a certain madness that encourages other
psychopaths to strike in their shadow. We will not readily know if it's
our terrorist enemy from afar, or the one emerging from the home-grown
psychopath's mind.

We are at war...... but we will have trouble finding our enemy.

It will be a long, long journey and we should take note of those
around us, if they are capable of going the distance or not.

We'll have to lend a hand to those that weaken, not fight among
ourselves as we have already begun to do.

That'll be 1/2 the battle. I'm not sure what the other 1/2 is.
And I have a feeling Spengler doesn't know either.

Ya like this is some real deep problem. It is all about command. With out that little people don't kill themselves. This is not a problem of destroying a whole bunch of people - it is about killing the command and doing so for a long period of time. Try to imagine yourself getting hold of an airliner and flying it into the masque at Mecca - you couldn't do it without a group supporting you. Without leaders there are no groups - and nearly all leader do so for a reason, that doesn't include being killed.

We have become a nation of fear

On the contrary, on 11 Sep 01 we realized we had to remove our sheeps' clothing and [sigh] once more act like the big, bad wolf. Actually, it's not an act, we really are the big, bad wolf, and we don't need no steenkin' Bumb or the B-2, or the Bunker Buster, although since they are handy we will use what's necessary. It's the sheep role that is an act.