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Excellent, detailed article. And in The New Yorker, of all places!

I was in NYC last week and came back home extremely depressed by the level of left-wing nonsense expressed by the chattering classes and by my own friends, who consider themselves, of course, "enlightened." Comparing Bush to Hitler seems to be par for the course - yes, that's BUSH, not SADDAM - as was announcing that there was no reason to think that Saddam was planning anything, it was just Bush wanting oil (one of the wierder arguments I've heard) that was leading to all of this. And as for terrorism, these idiots blithely proclaimed that it was just a threat and a scare tactic to "take away their civil liberties." Yeah. Right. Nobody in Iraq even has an civil liberties to take away, but that doesn't phase Upper West Siders.

I got into so many arguments that I was practically hoarse by the time I got back on the plane, but I fear it was all for nought, because I doubt that they really heard a word of what I said. I'm glad to know that our security services finally seem to be taking things a little more seriously. As for New Yorkers, or those on the Upper West Side, at least, I guess until there's another attack, they'll just refuse to believe it. If they believe it even then.

Excellent, detailed article. And in The New Yorker, of all places!

Actually, the New Yorker has a lot of good articles -- they're kinda surprising that way.

For example, back in 1997 they had this article about the threat of smallpox as a weapon.

It notes: The United States government keeps a list of nations and groups that it suspects either have clandestine stocks of smallpox or seem to be trying to buy or steal the virus. The list is classified, but it is said to include Russia, China, India, Pakistan, Israel, North Korea, Iraq, Iran, Cuba, and Serbia. The list may also include the terrorist organization of Osama bin Laden and, possibly, the Aum Shinrikyo sect of Japan....

The smallpox vaccinations being given to our troops suggests that the article is correct about the contents of that list.

Forget New Yorkers they are way beyond the pale no chance of breaking through the years of leftist propaganda inclucated in them through the communist controlled teachers union. Everything Evil originates in New York or its transplants in L.A.