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.

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

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

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

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

BOB KLAHN bob.klahn{at}sev.org   http://home.toltbbs.com/bobklahn

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