Arguments for ground war - forget it

Kelley kwalker2 at gte.net
Tue Nov 20 22:34:33 PST 2001


At 09:55 PM 11/20/01 -0800, Brad DeLong wrote:
>>so what that they feel a moral obligation to protest. you think that
>>people who support the war don't also feel a moral obligation to do so?
>>that's what i'm driving at. maintaining that their's is a moral act does
>>nothing for me. perhaps you could elaborate as to why it should.
>>
>>
>>kelley
>
>It is, however, beginning to look as if it is possible that the pro-war
>faction overestimated the strength of Al-Qaeda, and so it is beginning to
>look as though the pro-war case was weaker than I thought it was at the
>time. I know that one of the thoughts running through my mind on September
>11, and thereafter, was "what will the next atrocity be?"

well, don't get me wrong, i'm not pro-war in the least. i wasn't and am not even pro- "bring them to justice". my answer was to tell them to FOAD and come back and have some more. i'd really like to know who did this and i'd liked to have forced them to _say_ who they were. i'm merely disgusted by the excess we've been treated to for two months now.

i'll place a bet now: the anthrax letters are connected. takers?

also, consider lapses of time between attacks in the past--on the part of the same outfit. if this is part of a wider assault, then if they were planning on hitting us again quickly, it would have been done within the first two weeks. otherwise, you're talking the same amount of patience and planning as before. so, contrary to max's claims, i figure you can expect more in the future -- most likely by a group simply wishing to top 911.

think it can't be topped? well, someone's proved the effectiveness with which the mail system can be used. if one considers that it was mere speculation and that the point was to target something that got a LOT of mail so that you ended up concentrating tainted mail in distributions centers, then these folks tested their plan. it works. just send tainted mail to people/places that get tons o' mail. this concentrates the mail in a dist. center where the sorting machines shuffle it around real nice.

you could kill 5000 postal and mail sorting workers real cheap if you just, say, used ~2000 of those postage paid return envelopes (copied off with nifty laser printers that copy the barcode). make sure they're going to a few of those neato kewlo clearinghouses for magazine subscriptions or reader's digest sweeps. :p

kelley



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