Re: An oasis on the moon?

From: Rand Simberg (simberg.interglobal_at_org.trash)
Date: 03/01/05 

Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2005 03:55:36 GMT

On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 23:25:03 +0100, in a place far, far away, "Ool"
<ulrich.schreglmann@t-online.de> made the phosphor on my monitor glow
in such a way as to indicate that:

>"Rand Simberg" <simberg.interglobal@org.trash> wrote in message news:4245717a.999868434@newsgroups.bellsouth.net...
>
>> Even if that happened here, no one would say the country is either
>> "ruined" or a "powderkeg."
>
>
>You would if it happened twice a week.

I don't think so. We'd call it a situation that needs to be fixed,
and we'd be fixing it, as the Iraqis are starting to do now. These
are acts of desperation, of people who recognize that they're losing,
and they're no longer viewed as acts against the US--they're viewed as
acts against the new nation of Iraq.

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