anyway, one's crital ball from the stand point of atchison or kenen would have been predictive of thentainment of the soviet union and they would have been flabbergasted if someone told them you would fight two major washes in korea and vietnam, you would have a stalemate in one and lose the other. so the sense that i try to develop in my paper, the level of assumptions, just didn't pay attention to so many millions of people who were at that time in colonies trying to get out from under them. a number of other points i wanted to make, but i see i have about four minutes left. my analysis of september 11th can be announced very briefly. i more or less agree with john mueller that we have grossly overestimated the threat that came from that terrible act. on the other hand, i understand perfectly well what the policy makers, former policy makers in this room were saying just a few minutes ago about the extraordinary shock that this produced, the unknown fears that something like the anthrax attack, whatever you want to call that, would generate. and the idea that you don't know what's a

this can be crital at times to the face of legislation.hat's more ven i can sigh about the drafting and referral process. i will give you one other process about action or inaction on legislation. i'm reminded of some of you may remember the name of senator domenici who retired at the end of the last congress and there was a book written about this. when he was a freshman senator, he came in and he had the idea or somebody gave him the idea, i'm not sure which, that the people who use the nation's waterways, the barge operators in the united states, they don't contribute to the federal treasury for the construction and maintenance of these waterways and they ought to be like all the other transportation modes. so that was the idea. and this goes back a ways. the person who headed the finance committee was a man by the name of russell long of louisiana, because domenici's idea initially was one of the ways you extract money is what? you tax them. the issue here was, in louisiana, big river, large number of barge operators, right? so the hig

anyway, one's crital ball from the stand point of atchison or kenen would have been predictive of thef the soviet union and they would have been flabbergasted if someone told them you would fight two major washes in korea and vietnam, you would have a stalemate in one and lose the other. so the sense that i try to develop in my paper, the level of assumptions, just didn't pay attention to so many millions of people who were at that time in colonies trying to get out from under them. a number of other points i wanted to make, but i see i have about four minutes left. my analysis of september 11th can be announced very briefly. i more or less agree with john mueller that we have grossly overestimated the threat that came from that terrible act. on the other hand, i understand perfectly well what the policy makers, former policy makers in this room were saying just a few minutes ago about the extraordinary shock that this produced, the unknown fears that something like the anthrax attack, whatever you want to call that, would generate. and the idea that you don't know what's around the c