Kat, Bobert: I don't for a minute question your sincerity, not do I belittle your goal. However, Bobert I believe, validates my point (which I think was made in this thread ..but it may have been another) when he intimates that all of our problems will be over when Osma bin Laden is taken care of, one way or the other!

President Bush told us after 9-11 that this was going to be a long struggle. One that might last for months or years. Very soon Osama bin Laden will be history. Does that mean that the war between Terrorists and free people is over?

No way.

There are Terrorists, most likely, in every country in the world. That's what makes it different from any other enemy any country has ever faced before. This war is not going to be over until every Terrorist organization in the world is gone!

We are not dealing with individual countries, here. We are dealing with multiple malcontents in multiple countries.

It's like this, I think, but on a very different and much more serious scale: the majority of Mudcatters are dissatisfied with their governments. At least that is my assessment after over two years of having been a Mudcatter. It doesn't matter which country, the majority of those posting appear to me, to be dissatisfied.

Suppose each Mudcatter was dissatisfied enough to ally him/herself with an armed organized resistance that had as it's goal, the overthrow of the government of their country.

It would be very difficult for any government to combat such a group. There would be no single entity to fight, just as there is not with the Terrorists we are currently fighting. We cannot think of war any longer as we thought of war as in WW2, Korea, WW1, Viet Nam, Bosnia, etc. Future wars will be much different from those we have known.

With apologies to Amos, who, on another thread I chided for carrying on a bit long.

DougR