Thats right on target, should this thing get totally out of hand. I wonder if it hasnt already done so. I dont relish the thought of a case of paranoia for the rest of my life should the attempt to put an end to terrorism fail. But isnt the wording over the entrance to the cave a bit mixed up? I always thought that the phrase was "Abandon all hope, ye who enter here." But the point is still the same no matter what order the words are in.
Took a look at your site, this is a place that is going to have to be visited many times, not something that can be seen one time and left alone. I think the one article about how to get bin laden and stop terrorism is very good and right on target.
Something I wonder about after having heard the video released after the attacks began is what if we should pull out of the mideast and stop helping Isreal keep the Palestineans from getting a permanent homeland. I wonder if terror attacks on the US and US citizens would indeed stop? I think it would be worth giving that idea a shot. But one might wonder why get us out of the region? One thought that crosses my mind is with the US out of the way and not helping Isreal, these radical fundamentalists could then increase in size and power, take over the other Moslem governments, make a terrible war upon Isreal who I dont think would hesitate one minute to use their nukes. And I dont think the use of nukes by Isreal would prevent them from being wiped out to the last person, in fact I think they would be totally and completely destroyed as a people and a nation in time.
That is just one possibility, not saying that that is what *would* happen at all. Whatever would happen with the US out of the MidEast, I dont think things would settle down into a peaceful situation, nor do I think that attacks on US citizens would stop forever. They would just stop until it was thought that the resources were great enough to do permanent damage to the US.
"Isnt the wording over the entrance to the cave a bit mixed up? I always thought that the phrase was "Abandon all hope, ye who enter here.""
I think that's the inscription above the entrance to hell in Dante's "Inferno"; I don't know if it was original to Dante or if it went back earlier to classical mythology. I'll defer to someone knowledgeable about mideaeval and ancient languages as to what the best translation of the phrase is. :-)
"[...]should pull out of the mideast and stop helping Isreal keep the Palestineans from getting a permanent homeland."
Well, I don't think the two need to be exclusive; I'd like to see some sort of arrangement that respects the rights of both the Israelis and the Palestinians to live in that region. Of course it's very difficult so long as many in both groups think that their legitimate historical claims to live in the land of their ancestors somehow lessens or negates the similar legitmate claims of the other.
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Took a look at your site, this is a place that is going to have to be visited many times, not something that can be seen one time and left alone. I think the one article about how to get bin laden and stop terrorism is very good and right on target.
Something I wonder about after having heard the video released after the attacks began is what if we should pull out of the mideast and stop helping Isreal keep the Palestineans from getting a permanent homeland. I wonder if terror attacks on the US and US citizens would indeed stop? I think it would be worth giving that idea a shot. But one might wonder why get us out of the region? One thought that crosses my mind is with the US out of the way and not helping Isreal, these radical fundamentalists could then increase in size and power, take over the other Moslem governments, make a terrible war upon Isreal who I dont think would hesitate one minute to use their nukes. And I dont think the use of nukes by Isreal would prevent them from being wiped out to the last person, in fact I think they would be totally and completely destroyed as a people and a nation in time.
That is just one possibility, not saying that that is what *would* happen at all.
Whatever would happen with the US out of the MidEast, I dont think things would settle down into a peaceful situation, nor do I think that attacks on US citizens would stop forever. They would just stop until it was thought that the resources were great enough to do permanent damage to the US.
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"Isnt the wording over the entrance to the cave a bit mixed up? I always thought that the phrase was "Abandon all hope, ye who enter here.""
I think that's the inscription above the entrance to hell in Dante's "Inferno"; I don't know if it was original to Dante or if it went back earlier to classical mythology. I'll defer to someone knowledgeable about mideaeval and ancient languages as to what the best translation of the phrase is. :-)
"[...]should pull out of the mideast and stop helping Isreal keep the Palestineans from getting a permanent homeland."
Well, I don't think the two need to be exclusive; I'd like to see some sort of arrangement that respects the rights of both the Israelis and the Palestinians to live in that region. Of course it's very difficult so long as many in both groups think that their legitimate historical claims to live in the land of their ancestors somehow lessens or negates the similar legitmate claims of the other.
Cheers, -- F.