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Re: Teaching Muslim a lesson.
Many governments, one attitude? Then perhaps that aspect of this is the cold war with the soviet state and it's puppets. No analogy is perfect, but.... And I don't believe the Marshall plan existed until it was all over. Until it was, the focus was finishing the war. Then they worried about putting the pieces back together. But that IS a necessary piece. Many of our problems in various parts of the world (afghanistan, for instance) are because we didn't finish the job, and left them to rot in their ruins on their own. That leads to, oh, bitterness. for some reason. I guess my conundrum is this. "doing nothing" is usually the easiest answer, because it's hard to get blamed for doing nothing. But doing nothing is not always the proper action, and leads to worse things long-term. The trick is having the ability ot judge when it needs to be done, and the courage to do it. Imagine if people who took chances along the way in the creation of the internet took the "easy" way out, or if people believed that personal computers weren't practical and didn't try anyway, or.... The people who opt for the safe answer aren't the ones who change the world.
I'm not saying I agree with Nick. I just find I can't reject it out of hand.
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