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"Tim J." wrote in message
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What is your (or anyone else who dabbles) recommendation
to resolve the conflict there?

I don't know, its complex, but I know what's being done now isn't
working. But I'm also getting pretty amazed that there doesn't seem
to be any thing called 'reality' that people agree on any more.
Everything gets compromised....the press, the people, morals, truth,
reality. How then, could something as complex as the Palestinian
situation, or the war in Iraq/Afghanistan be resolved? Not by reason
or truth, that seems for damn sure.

I dunno. Its the end of a sort of American Innocence, and its not a
change for good.

The "end of American innocence" was a neccessity AFAIAC. Sure, I'd rather
have never worried about such things, but that wasn't in the cards. I don't
disagree that it's not a change for the good, but no change in attitude
would have been much worse. I sure hope we can get to a point of striking a
medium, and I think we've seen a bit of that in the loosening of certain
travel restrictions recently. I can't imagine, though, that we'll ever get
back to pre-9/11 naivety and false comfort.

Methinks the next level of terrorist activity will be on a whole different
playing field, and that much of the airline security measures put in place
were to placate the general public. While the general public's attention is
being averted to the magician's assistant, anyone keeping up on the IT trade
journals knows that most governments, including the USA, get miserable
failing grades for IT security. Maybe our own Mr. Reid (a scholar of the
subject) can tell me I'm wrong and dealing with yet another episode of media
hype. Please!?
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TL,
Tim
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