From: Brian D Williams (talon57@well.com)
Date: Wed Aug 14 2002 - 12:23:52 MDT
>From: Rafal Smigrodzki <rms2g@virginia.edu>
>Brian D Williams:
>Unfortunately there are many who think us weak simpering fools and
>we have suffered tragically for letting them get that impression.
>### As much as some groups hate America, very few would think
>Americans are weak, or simpering. The consensus (of the
>misinformed miscreants) is that the American state behaves like a
>blustering bully blockhead. Precipitous, protean, and protracted
>action is likely to reinforce this erroneous belief.
We didn't behave this way in Afghanistan despite everyone being
positive that that is precisely what would happen.
Earned us maybe 15 minutes respect.
>Rafal
>PS. As an explanation - I am all for open military intervention
>against well-defined targets, like the Taliban were, and I do
>agree that prudently applied violence not only solves problems,
>sometimes it is the best solution - but the plans for covert
>actions against fuzzily defined targets to be performed by poorly
>accountable secret organizations do not sound prudent at all.
This is asymmetrical warfare, requires new warfare methods.
I understand your concerns.
Brian
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