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doyle@PROBLEM_WITH_INEWS_GATEWAY_FILE wrote:

> You assume to think that terrorist are rational.

No, I am assuming that states with sufficient resources to
build long-range ballistic missiles with weapons of mass
destruction are capable of exhibiting rational behavior in the
face of a clear and present danger of gettin vaporized.

> Even if they are
> rational their logic is based on a different set of asumptions.
> Suicide bombers have nothing to loose in this world but believe
> they will gain much in the next.

1 - State-sponsored terrorist *organizations* generally exhibit
pretty rational behavior, even if we might not seek to emulate
the behavior of their adherents.

2 - I agree that over the next five years or so, as we start
warming up to the new Millennium [check out the traffic on
some of the relevant newsgroups] that things might start to
get interesting, but BMD and ICBMs have nothing to do with this.


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