--- JBrown72073 at cs.com wrote:
> >> If the ex-Trotskyist writer Christopher Hitchens
> is to
> >> be believed, America is torn between those who
> favour a showdown
> >> with Saddam and those who "truly believe that [US
> Attorney General]
> >> John Ashcroft is a greater menace than Osama bin
> Laden" (2).
> >
> >Am I insane to think this is actually true? Which I
> >do. jks
>
> While they both have god on their side--which must
> count for
> something--Ashcroft has more paid agents under his
> control, better-armed and
> trained, with a bigger budget (at least now), is
> able to operate in the open
> (mostly), with the backing of a massive,
> well-organized system of courts and
> prisons in his host country. Al Qaeda, though
> perhaps more wontonly
> bloodthirsty, is a pretty rickety operation compared
> to the DOJ. So, no.
>
> Jenny Brown
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