From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Sep 14 10:58:33 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from hawk.mail.pas.earthlink.net (hawk.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 03B5137B407 for ; Fri, 14 Sep 2001 10:58:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mindspring.com (dialup-209.247.141.144.Dial1.SanJose1.Level3.net [209.247.141.144]) by hawk.mail.pas.earthlink.net (EL-8_9_3_3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA09264; Fri, 14 Sep 2001 10:58:08 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <3BA2454E.AB05D0D0@mindspring.com> Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2001 10:58:38 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Reply-To: tlambert2@mindspring.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Cc: David Scheidt , Milo Hyson , Paul Robinson , Bill Moran , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Helping victims of terror References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > America is in serious need of a lesson in humility and historical > perspective, though I concede that this is a horrible way to learn > such a lesson, and I would not wish it upon anyone. The U.S. doesn't do "humble" when its ire is aroused -- it does "scortched earth". All continuing acts of terrorism will do is really, really make us angry. You wouldn't like us when we are _truly_ angry. We do things like "The Manhattan Project", and we have learned an incredible amount since the end of WW II, 55 years ago; that's over half a century. Right now, the U.S. is what I'd call "mildly annoyed", compared to where it could be. Last night at the BAFUG user group meeting, we discussed several of the possible reactions the U.S. might engage in, as a result of being driven by public opinion. Nuclear weapon drops on Kabul are not at all scary in comparison to some of the options. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message