Bob Klahn -> John Massey wrote:

 TR>>>> Secondly.....if *you* were so superior in knowledge of the
 TR>>>> subject.......I have to wonder that you aren't in
 TR>>>> Washington telling everybody what to do, and with you on
 TR>>>> the job 9/11 would probably `never' have come off.

 BK>>>  If Al Gore had been in the Whitehouse it might well not have. He
 BK>>>  would have listened to Richard Clarke.

 JM>> And that would have been a disaster.

 BK>  You are saying avoiding 9-11 would be a disaster?

 BK>  That sounds like the people who say FDR allowed Pearl Harbor to
 BK>  get the US into the war. No, that is like saying FDR did the
 BK>  right thing in allowing Pearl Harbor to happen to get the US
 BK>  into the war.

 BK>  Long ago I decided that, if we were going to have a nuclear war,
 BK>  then it would have been better if it had happened in the early
 BK>  '50s. Then we had a more powerful nuclear force, and no one had
 BK>  enough to blow up most of the world. So the casualties would
 BK>  have been muchlower, and the Soviet Union and China would
 BK>  probably have fallen.

 BK>  That does not, in anyway say that we should have a nuclear war.
 BK>  What you said seems on the level of saying we should have had
 BK>  one.

Did you teach chubby checker the twist?

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