<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> <title></title> </head> <body> <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:JIMRPT@aol.com">JIMRPT@aol.com</a> wrote: <blockquote cite="mid5a.28bea038.2d869c3b@aol.com" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Equally foolish are those who do not pray for peace and those who do not prepare for a lack of peace...... Faintly Dull _______________________________________________ pianotech list info: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives">https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives</a> </pre> </blockquote> Like I say... I go for the walk quietly and carry a big stick. Ya gots to take your licks in a world like ours. The bad guys are never going to dissapear.  But that doesnt mean you are supposed to arm yourself to the teeth, bully everyone around you with... either your for us or against us... allienate most of your freinds and increase the hate factor in the world by a factor of 10, and bomb helter skelter in a vain attempt to slash out at flies. You already lost your war.... simply because you are fighting on their terms.  Your society is closed down 100 fold compared to a few years back. Your citizens are unduly frightened and cower behind the illusion of your armed might. The <<enemy>> has accomplished all and more of what he is after because you foolishly play right into his hands. You cannot beat this enemy this way. You can only win by providing the rest of human kind with a clearly better alternative then the one these zealots have to offer.  You can only win by  winning over... not by beating up.  America is strong enough...even now.. to weather such storms with dignity... right now America is choosing quite a different path. Perhaps the following picture from Amsterdam will enlighten somewhat..... The American Embassy... Easter 2003 <img src="cid:part1.00020707.01000009@grieg.uib.no" alt=""> The wall around it was too keep angry allies from busting the place up. This is winning freinds and influencing people eh ???  and THIS is from one of our best freinds countries...... RicB </body> </html>