On Wed, 13 Jul 2005 21:34:23 -0500, John Willis
> wrote:

>On Thu, 14 Jul 2005 01:54:54 +0200, "P.J. Berg" >
>scribbled this interesting note:
>
>>
>>Someone is forgetting something here, which nation train AlCaida and the
>>likes in the first place, UUUuups, wrong question???
>>(Anti Commie at the time, but backfired did it not??)
>
>So far as I'm concerned that was a short sighted policy then, just as
>policies in place now may similarly turn out to be short sighted from
>a point of view we do not and can not have in the present. It is
>impossible to predict the future. Ideas and strategies that may seem
>like the best ways to deal with existing situations, oftentimes turn
>out to have been flawed. It is easy to be a Monday morning
>quarter-back. It is hard to create, make, design, and implement good
>policy in every instance.
>
>Is that what you are trying to say? If so, I agree completely.

Hmm. You handled/said that a lot better than I ever could have.