[Leica] OT - another horror story about photos and the Patriot Act

[abridge at gmail.com (Adam Bridge)]

The events of 9/11 definitely lead me to form a different conclusion.
Not the kind of war that Bush wanted in Iraq (short and victorious)
but an asymmetrical war of ideas that the current administration is
ill-prepared to fight since, for the most part, it represents a war of
ideas and the fight between the concept of a secular state and those
for whom such an entity is an anathma and who will use any lengths to
have their way.

I have no love at all for religious states. They seem a disaster
blending all the worst forms of fanatacism both internally and in
their relations with those around them. The Middle East seems a prime
case in point.

So, please, don't suggest we're not at war. I'm not naive. I recognize
a very real threat when I see one, a threat that I don't believe is
going away any time soon.

Adam

On Sun, 11 Jul 2004 00:30:53 +0200, Philippe Orlent
<philippe.orlent@pandora.be> wrote:
> Your country is not at war. They make you just think it is.
> ---