> If anything, this
>reduces the case for Star Wars, and inflates
>the case for everything else.
I didn't say the reaction would be rational, just that since that will be one of the "defensive" measures pushed by Bush in the wake of the event, Congress will not turn down the "Commander in Chief" declaring it is necessary.
Civil liberties will of course be on the chopping block as well. And the Palestinians just lost most chance they had for a state for the next decade or so with pictures of celebrations in Nablus interspersed with the pictures of death and destruction in NYC. Even some folks sympathetic to the Palestinians will block any political gains for them in order not to "reward terrorism."
None of the reaction will be rational, but the results of what Newt Gingrinch has declared to be the "21st Century Pearl Harbor" will be extreme, unfortunately.
Nathan Newman