In a message dated 4/19/2004 2:26:35 AM Eastern Daylight Time, mccreery@xxxxxxx writes: When, in fact, on icy reflection it was far less than Pearl Harbor, which represented a nearly successful attempt to make the Japanese the dominant military power throughout the Western Pacific. 9/11 may have equaled Pearl Harbor in terms of shock to the national psyche, boosted in no small part by the hyperbolic coverage on TV--but, IMHO, as serious threats go, Pearl Harbor was far more dangerous. ____ I was thinking in terms of human casualties. ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html