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["Lynda" <lurine AT softcom.net>]

What you are looking at is the result of several generations of public 
schooling.  Stand in line, raise your hand, don't question authority, be a 
good little consumer.

Look at 9/11.  Four planes and passengers on only one plane did anything 
except sit passively.  Look at Columbine.  Kids waited passively while the 
shooters reloaded their weapons, NO ONE attempted to disarm them while they 
stood in the middle of dozens of kids.  No one did anything.

It happens all the time.  However, it isn't all that new if you look at what 
preceeded it.  Is it not just an extension of the whole mind set where 
people ignore someone laying on the street bleeding or other incidents that 
have been reported over the last 30 or 40 years?

Lynda
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rob Walton" <waltonrp AT gmail.com>


> I am not a big supporter of what our country is doing in Iraq.
>
> I would like to think that as a nation the response would be different if 
> we
> were under attack from a clear enemy. I'd like to think that our people
> would rally and concentrate on victory.
>
> However, I cannot imagine most of the current population enduring 
> shortages,
> rationing and other day to day inconveniences that people endured in the
> 40s. Maybe down deep these sniveling, latte slurping folks are stronger 
> than
> they seem.
>
> What we have accomplished in Iraq, is to demonstrate our complete 
> inability
> to fight a ground war. We have bared our weakness to the world and now 
> have
> to reap the consequences; this is only a start.
>
> Rob - Va