Yes it's off topic but who cares right now.

Fri Sep 14 19:25:08 UTC 2001

One way to look at it is that our response needs to be more sophisticated than
'simple revenge' to have a hope of making any difference at all.

Let's just hope the "known to quickly expire" attention of the American public
can hang with it.

"Rowland, Alan D" wrote:
> 
> You're assuming the original act was revenge. Which part of "this is an act
> of War" don't you understand? The death toll of this act is projected at
> twice the number killed in Pearl Harbor.
> 
> This is a war of survival. I, for one, am not going to go quietly.
> 
> -Al
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Patrick Greenwell [mailto:patrick at cybernothing.org]
> Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2001 8:11 PM
> To: Los, Ralph
> Cc: 'Dmitri Krioukov'; 'Arman Khalili'; 'nanog at merit.edu'
> Subject: RE: Yes it's off topic but who cares right now.
> 
> On Thu, 13 Sep 2001, Los, Ralph wrote:
> 
> >
> >       True, there is no taking back what happened, but if GW issued an act
> > of war, and did some re-arranging of the middle-east and the like, and
> > places like Afganistan, Iraq, and the Palestinian militant states
> > DISAPPEARED forever - no one, especially this blue-blooded American would
> > shed a tear...and I as one...would see all the psycho-terrorists to hell.
> 
> Revenge begets revenge.