<If one doesn't get stuck with "either - or".

Who could that be?

Guns are a technology. They can be used to protect, or to create more enemies. In the hands of a moral maroon they are dangerous.

Dunno why you need to qualify the “maroon” as needing to be “moral”. Any idjit with a loaded weapon (pick one) is a walking danger to anyone within range.

Technology gives the illusion of superiority. What every GOOD barroom fighter knows is there is no substitute for friends. No matter how mean, no matter how big, no matter how tough you are, someone will always come up behind you with a 2X4. WTC was a 2X4.

Funny how “superior” technology does that.

The attacks on New York City and Washington, DC, in no way defeated us, and the fight is far from over -- though there are a lot of idiots (see above) in the nation who insist we’re already won. As for friends, they’re all around us. Their populations quibble at the thought of being “drawn” into a war that isn’t their own and their leaders sound off about the economic and physical dangers -- though they do know better. They argue on and on, but they will not stand in our way. Even the Arab states have said as much, and to Hussein himself.

The war against terror is real, and it effects all -- even if the U.S. packs its bags and goes home, though that can never happen. There are about 3,000 voting families out there still seeking closure, still seeking justice, and still mourning their personal losses.

You want peace in the Middle East. So do I, as I hope that the people of Iraq soon come to their senses and oust their king before we do. If they do not, the U.S. will definitely go in after him, and woe to whomever shall stand in our way.

A-bombs are a technology. And only good if you don't use them. Think, for instance, that if Israel or the US nukes Iraq, Iran might slip 'em a few? Using nukes would be dumb beyond belief.

No. That’s where strategy come into play, Bowser. But I doubt it would come to a nuke-war. Terrorists don’t need the U.S. to goad them into using nukes anyway. They’ll use whatever they can get, and if it happens to be a nuke, then they’ll use a nuke.

Technology is cumulative, the wisdom regarding how to use it has to be learned from scratch by everyone anew.



Nope, technology raises the stakes, and magnifies the cost of the mistakes of the leaders. Doesn't solve problems, unfortunately.





Technology creates new problems, this is true, but at the same time is solves old problems -- the Iraq has been a problem for quite some time.

I’ll take a problem-exchange over a nuke-exchange any day of the week,
Dan