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The problem with a long-term strategy like this is that, the longer it takes until the 'big event', the greater the risk that it will be thwarted. That's why it is amazing that the hijackers were able to pull off what they did on September 11th. So many things could have interfered with their plans, but did not.

If this is true asymmetric warfare, there may not be any one 'big event' coming. Just an escalation in the little pinprick events that cause chaos. A logical next step might be for anthrax to make it to the west coast. Maybe a high school. Some demographic that so far has felt insulated from these events.

I'd almost rather there be another big event. It's easier for Americans to wrap their minds around the mangled WTC. Anthrax is more subtle, and invisible. We might be getting 'death from a thousand cuts', rather than a nuclear bomb.

It's hard not to feel like a sitting duck right now. I just hope to heck my faith in this administration is well-placed.

I just hope to heck my faith in this administration is well-placed.

That thought has crossed my mind as well, but then I remember, IT COULD BE ALGORE AND LIEBERMAN RUNNING THIS WAR! I can't imagine a scarier thought!

You could be right, but I keep looking at how much firepower we have over there and how little of it is being used. I can't help but think they are working on something dramatic.

I'm also concerned about this weekend. A lot of people are going to be in Phoenix.

In terms of the actual enemy strategy: keep in mind that even freepers only are guessing at the edges of what the NSC knows.

It is quite possible that the folks who have sent these antrax letters have supplied proof to the FBI and NSC that they have enough anthrax on hand to mail thousands of leaky anthrax filled mailing bags at once.

It would only take one drum of the stuff smuggled in on one of the millions of uninspected cargo containers which arrive every year. Or as they say, "hide it in a shipment of cocaine".

We might only be seeing the warning shot. The main volley may be their "deterrent card". A thousand leaky envelopes of the stuff mailed the same morning all over the USA would cause a major health disaster, and would shut down our postal system for months, doing great damage to our economy.

Remember, these guys are into "jui jitsu" leverage, using our strength against us. They are the folks who brought down the twin towers with box cutters. Don't underestimate them!

Just a hypothesis.