>Hello Hilmar.
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Yes, of course. While it is very unfortunate, it seems that the terrorist attacks themselves are helping to force nations to work together.>
>Especially when you stop to think that people from all over the world were killed in the WTC that day. It was not just an attack on America. It was an attack on the entire Western World.
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>Sad, but true...nothing seems to unite people better than having a common enemy.
I recently read a very interesting science fiction story, where a brilliant scientist "invents" a threat from outer space - that is, makes it seam real. May have been by Theodore Sturgeon, but I am not sure at this moment. The story itself is quite old.
The end-result, in the story, was a grand unification of the entire planet.
Hilmar.
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)