<HTML>I <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px"> >>Carl: Figuring out most Americans' reasoning is like analyzing a Monty >>Python sketch.  I believe the thinking goes like this:  Saddam >>wasn't responsible for the 9/11 attacks, but the attacks were just >>the type of thing he would have done if he'd had the opportunity. > >Doug: Slavoj argues, in the interview I'll be broadcasting later today, >that the "reasoning" is this: AQ hates America, SH hates America, so >they're all the same and must be destroyed. I don't think that's true.  Neither AQ nor SH has been confirmed to have died, nor have they been captured by the USG, in short, they have not been "destroyed," but Americans don't seem to care. -- Yoshie</BLOCKQUOTE> ******* <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">CB: ? AQ = Osama, the number one contract hit ,"public enemy # 1" for J. Edgar's ole outfit, after 9/11/01.......Now almost forgotten, the individual melted into his group. The average USer feels and is powerless in the most powerful nation in the world. One goes along to get along. If one rah rahs maybe she will get a job; maybe he'll get on wheel of fortune,  so rah rah. The individual USer is a geometric point, infinitely small, while Ronald Reagan lies that North America holds the individual as sacred.</BLOCKQUOTE> </HTML>