It's not war

Post #9,273 by kmself 9/15/01 9:11:20 AM Reply	It's not war It's a chess match. bin Laden has attacked. Not with pawns. Knights. Jumped in over our heads, and knocked things around a bit. He's trying to draw us out. Get us inflamed. Perform an overly bold move. The problem is that there are other pieces on the board. If we don't respond, he'll keep coming after us -- unfortunately in this game, there are more than 16 pieces. But he doesn't have unlimited resources. What is inevitable is that we're going to have to make calculated strategic moves, and we're going to have to sacrifice some of our own pieces, no matter what. bin Laden's structured the board such that this is inevitable. We have far more power, but his structure is arrayed far more deviously. It's going to be a tricky time of it, I think. The problem is, I don't think W's spent much time playing chess. On the other hand, I don't know what bin Laden's poker hand is like. -- Karsten M. Self [link\|mailto:kmself@ix.netcom.com\|kmself@ix.netcom.com] What part of "gestalt" don't you understand?
Post #9,287 by wharris2 9/15/01 11:49:32 AM Reply	Continuing analogy bin Laden is playing off the Afghanistan chessboard. It's hard to play chess if you don't have a board. I can play chess in my head (blindfold chess?) but bin Laden or Hussein or whoever is responsible will find it hard to play terrorist chess without a country to support them. bin Laden: 1.P-K4 (e4) USA: 1. ... P-QB4 (c5) (an oblique, but aggressive, approach.) That no man should scruple, or hesitate a moment to use arms in defense of so valuable a blessing [as freedom], on which all the good and evil of life depends, is clearly my opinion; yet arms ... should be the last resource. - George Washington
Post #9,314 by Ashton 9/15/01 4:37:07 PM Reply	Hey guys: I think you've Got It\ufffd And.. this further serves to point out the inanity - practised exclusively in the US? - of approaching Every problem from crime to education to poverty (!!) via this loathsome 'War On ___' utter BS model. Maybe.. we can alter That little habit, too - as we are assuredly going to be revisiting very many other simplistic views we have: about 'us' and about the rest of the world. For dead certain: we are going to be educated across a variety of topics, as this all unfolds (unless of course - we regress to a jingoistic Hermann Kahn spasm war as would destroy us all.) I think.. we're now too smart for that, but - those temptations are always around.. especially when you possess the means to destroy most 'higher' lifeforms. Ashton

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