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frankie_the_yankee wrote:

seamusTX wrote:Please explain how any amount of U.S. military action overseas will stop five, ten, or 100 terrorists from entering the country legally or illegally, or "disaffected youths" in, say, Dearborn, Michigan, or Paramus, New Jersey, from taking action without direct orders from Osama bin Laden.

Sure. As soon as you establish that these incidents occurred because of American foreign policy, and provide a credible model of what the world situation would be today had that policy been different.

I asked a simple question and I don't see an answer.

Alternativee history is fascinating but not germane to this forum or topic.

- Jim

Anthrax mailer, started mailing poisoned letters September 18, 2001. Killed five Americans on U.S. soil. Shut down the Senate office building. Crime never solved.

John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo, killed 16 Americans on U.S. soil in 2002. Is there any question that this was an incident of Muslim-inspired terrorism by people who did not come from the Middle East?

Richard Reid, British citizen and Al Queda member, prevented from blowing up an airliner only because his shoe bomb was defective and passengers piled on him.

Please explain how any amount of U.S. military action overseas will stop five, ten, or 100 terrorists from entering the country legally or illegally, or "disaffected youths" in, say, Dearborn, Michigan, or Paramus, New Jersey, from taking action without direct orders from Osama bin Laden.

Please include a detailed explanation of how action in the Middle East deters terrorist originating in Africa, Asia, and Europe.

- Jim

There's another point against the "Perot gave Clinton the Presidency" argument:

Here are the total numbers of votes cast in presidential elections:

1988: 91.6 million
1992: 104.4 million
1996: 96.2 million

IOW, almost 13 million more people voted in 1992 than in 1988, and 8 million fewer voted in 1996.

Could it be that Mr. Perot brought out voters in 1992 who had never registered or ceased to vote, who voted for him? I have always thought this was the case, but I've never seen a good analysis to prove it.

By 1996, Mr. Perot's reputation was rather tarnished, IMHO, and he interrupted his campaign.

BTW, any analysis of this sort is incomplete unless it looks at electoral votes, not the popular-vote totals. A vote cast in a small-population state like Wyoming or North Dakota has far more electoral value than in a large-population state.

- Jim