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Sir; People cannot think about the unthinkable so they don't waste much time on it. They trust their government to avoid problems and our government seeks them out. We think we are fighting over territory, or oil, or religion, or terror. We are fighting because that man needs his honor, his rights, and his diginity as much as we need ours. Only we are used to settling for less, for admitting defeat in the face of victory, or selling our gains to the loser at half the price we paid. We have given up the ship, and given up our life raft to make room for the winners in our society. Now that they have led us into poverty and to the brink of war, are we still going to trust them?... Look at it this way: The liberals fight for government to prevent disaster. The reactionaries fight for government to inflict disaster; and no one seems to ask what is the good of any government that can be turned on a dime. My father had a boat that I used to steer that way, left and right, until I was called zig zag. We have no compass, and no fixed star. We may as well have lost our rudders as our minds. But, if it seems thoughtless to rattle and roll for nuclear conflict, it is because our ideas do our thinking. Once we have a good idea that sounds right in a sound bite we forget how to challenge it. We have to go to Vietnam and fight a losing war in the service of our conception of reality called: The Domino Theory. Ya; that's good for a million lives or so. Life is cheap, and peace is dear; but a good theory has chrome on every surface. So; what is our grand theory of life that is bringing us to war? Democracy western style? The war on terror? We have to save face. They have to Kow Tow? Don't count on it. Build a bomb shelter, because those dimwits in Washington have forgotten what their heads are for.... Thanks. Sweeney