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Posted By: peter chao

Dan, David, guys

I deserve all the flack your throwing my way. I hated making the analogy myself. Remember, I think that Mr. Cho is a madman just as much as you do.

But people conveniently forget that the Iraq war was really over in a couple of days. The U.S. simply bombed the key military targets and lots of innocent lives were lost.

The terrorists aren't afraid of us, but our allies certainly are.

I hope that all U.S. soldiers will be home soon both safe and sound.

I'm probably way off base. That happens when I've spent 8 years at Cal at Berkeley and spent another 20 plus years practicing law in the Bay Area.

I would like to see the U.S. continue it's reign as a superpower but it's difficult to see how that's going to continue when half the world is afraid of us and the other half hates us.

We are surely lucky that we have the natural resources that we have and the technology that we have. But once we take the position that "power makes us right." We start losing our role as leaders and our moral compass. And our nation will decay just like other modern superpowers have.

Also, our nation will also serve as bad example for our youth, who start thinking that there are times when preemptive war is justified. In my humble opinion it never is, whether we are speaking about nations or madmen like Mr. Cho.

Peter