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[ladjf]

ours, using the strategy of asymmetrical damage while still having the firepower to deter. As you've said, the tendency is toward conventional weaponry. However, that would be overridden by a smaller
Country, on the verge of an American takeover. From their viewpoint, they would have nothing to lose by launching a nuclear attack. This could be done from the decks of tramp freighters cruising outside the U.S. territorial waters.

What this all adds up to is that the Bush idea of using raw power all over the world to carry out his plots is only making a bad situation much worse. The only hope for reducing the risks, is to find ways to reduce the motivations for attacks. In other words, do what can be done to make it counter-productive for anyone to attack us.

I can't find the words to adequately describe the full extent of the current administration's short-sighted stupidity. It's as though they are from another planet. Homo sapien has been on Earth less than 300,000 years. Evolutionarily speaking, that's a very short period. At the rate we're going, it's likely that humans will break all records of "shortgevity". (Turtles, for example, have been on Earth for over 200,000,000 years.)