On 5 Sep 2002 at 11:45, Mermaid . wrote:
> [Joe Dees]Better than vaporization of our cities - which would also
> royally and regally screw Wall Street and the Dow/NASDAQ/S&P indexes.
>
> [Mermaid]You know this...how?
>
If conventional war with Iraq cost 10,000 lives, yet a nuking of an
American or israeli city, plus a retaliatory nuking of Baghdad cost ten
million (if it could be limited to a single exchange), and there were only
a 1% chance of that happening, the cost-benefit analysis would still
weigh in at 10:1 in favor of conventional action.
>
> [Joe Dees]I don't see Israel as a nation interested in helping the
> selfsame Iran (whose hardline Ayatolluh Khameini has repeatedly called
> for the destruction of Israel) that just allowed Imad Mugniyeh to try
> to ship 50 tons of weapons to the PA.
>
> [Mermaid]You, obviously, didn't read the links I gave...
>
Did you read mine? I read enough of yours to catch the general
subtextual conspiratorial drift.
>
> [Joe Dees] I suspect private profiteers were involved, and that
> they'll pay a heavy price.
>
> [Mermaid]Eh? And you know this...how?
>
After the publicity, they will have to be publicly dealt with. Had the
matter remained out odf the public eye, I strongly suspect they would
have been dealt with, anyway, but privately. OF COURSE people of all
types will try to buy weapons from those who have them, regardless of
whether or not they share their views of things; that's why bank robbers
rob banks - it's where the money is.
>
> [Joe Dees]The US would love to have a less-than-acrimonious
> relationship with a Khatami-led Iran, and is hoping that the budding
> democratic movement there will break the hammerlock that the hard-line
> clerics have on the country. It has also made statements to that
> effect. But as long as the Khameini-led clerics wield the real power
> there, the US is unlikely to do anything that might assist in propping
> up their totalitarian theocratic regime, and is unlikely to
> countenance Israel doing so, either (such action would (understatement
> alert here) also not be in Israel's best interests).
>
> [Mermaid]I know you are trying to make a point here, but all I can
> read is...Blah...blah..blah. Blah..blah.
> Blah..blah...blah...blah..blah. Blah.
>
Each according to their comprehensional abilities...
>
> P.S.You could still agree for the debate on IRC. This, I suggest in
> support of Hermit's offer to you, despite Hermit bad mouthing me to
> all and sundry. Surely, you are not scared? Are you?
>
Ir seems to me that Hermit is the scared one; scared to crawl out of his
dark BBS garage and duke it out on the email list in clear vision of all
the sundry Virus neighborhood kids.
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