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I agree.

What we can do, though mine are homeschooled, is look closely at Beslan and examine the things that went wrong. If the problem-solving becomes nothing more than an exercise in thinking, great. We got some brain exercise.

But it doesn't hurt to get some ideas flowing, imo. I tried to do this on the last thread about this, because I read so so extensively about Beslan and have studied Basayev and his hostage situations in great detail.

MarMema, There is simply NOTHING wrong with brainstorming ideas, or discussing the "what could happen" concept. Keep it up, and do not let people like "Glenn" dissuade you with his outrageous comments of "do nothing". It is PRECISELY that sort of thinking that LET 9-11 happen. The government was warned time and time again about escalations from each of the brutal attacks that were happening, in particular during the Clinton Administration. They, the government refused to listen to experts in the field, and they refused to listen to us "boots on the ground" in many cases. After all, the military is, to the Left, nothing but a bunch of "Robots" who "follow orders and Shut Up".

This is the sort of thing people like Glenn would have you believe. It is what the Clinton Administration believed. Unfortunately, it is sometimes what a lot of Americans think about those of us who've been on the ground, seen and heard, and dealt with various world situations in person.

Some would call them cowards, because they want you to learn from past mistakes, like not listening to experts prior to 9-11. Or making laughing comments about y2k (when it was a real issue for many computer systems, and indeed, without making the required changes, and people looking into the problem BEFORE HAND would have been disastrous).

Keep up the thinking, and planning and deciding. When you die, you can rest. Until then, THINKING is the exercise of the mind. When you sit there, fat, dumb and happy, and being an "Optimist" about your fellow man, that's when you can convince yourself that the only evil out there are those who think. Don't let people convince you that thinking is wrong.