From: John Cuccia 

On Fri, 24 Dec 2004 11:09:33 -0600, Dave  wrote:

>On Mon, 20 Dec 2004 21:35:27 -0800, Ellen K.
> wrote in message
>:
>
>| I feel like the article is saying the government is helpless and the
>| idea of the government being helpless vis-…-vis the terrorists disturbs
>| me.
>
>What would you propose that they do about it?

How about a pre-emptive invasion a country that wasn't involved in
terrorist attacks against the US, emtangling the nation in a hugely
expensive decades-long occupation of a hostile nation, all based on the
notion that we can spread democracy using American military power?

Nah, that's ludicrous.

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