[ChemistCat]

I spent hours talking with L. Neil on GEnie in the mid 80s on the Writer's RT. I don't think he was quite this far out there back then. This essay made me mad, and I think it is a total distortion of what is really going on right now. I don't see us still fighting this war in 10 years. The regimes we are up against are far too unstable. Anything we do can only bring improvement. As far as the effects on our liberties of this war, I believe he is grossly exaggerating them. GWB is a Texan through and through and he isn't the enemy of the Bill of Rights.

[Lurker]

Then why is he demanding for himself the right to name who is and who isn't a 'terrorist' and then try and execute them without the benefit of counsel?

Why does he demand that search warrants be served without notice to the object of the search?

These aren't the actions of a person concerned about my civil rights.

L

[Twodees]

Texan through and through, huh? Born in Connecticut to two yankee parents and educated in New England makes him less than what you describe. He hasn't read the Bill of Rights, only commentary on it written by Laurence Tribes.

[boris]

"I don't see us still fighting this war in 10 years."

The real war against terrorism will take, IMHO, 5-15 years. The war in Afghanistan is window-dressing.

The real war will be fought in the shadows, by spies and assassins. The typical battle will be one guy stepping out of a shadowed corner and placing a bullet in the brain of another guy.

It will take many years; it will not be easy--and it is us or them.

--Boris