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Re: First entry in "predict the responses!"
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Wed, 22 May 2002 20:21:41 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Richard Marchetti writes:
> It's easy to feel overwhelmed -- I have my own problems, we all have our own
> problems, and the M.E. is after all a little place with their problems. But
> the M.E. standoff is obviously more meaningful than one can account for in
> miles of land or numbers of lives -- clearly it has become symbolic of a
> clash over faith, ethics, values, culture, and perceptions.
Not my spin. That is *totally* putting the situation WAY out of context. As I
mentioned before, I kind of question the motives of people who would put *so*
much importance upon this minor problem (in the context of all of the problems
on earth today).
One might even
> goes so far as to assert that if we can achieve peace in the M.E. then there
> is hope for the future and some reason to believe in the general "goodness"
> of our species.
Or not. And what will it say if peace is *not* achieved? Does that mean we
are all doomed? It may be, because IMO (and my government's), if terrorists
had access to weapons of mass destruction, they wouldn't hesistate to use them.
And if they did, for the love of God, tell me to what end? Anyone who would
do such a thing *is* irrational! And I know that all Arabs are *not*
extremists, but it seems to me that most are only too willing to sit back and
watch the US, Israel (the West, for that matter) get "theirs".
It is the *Arabs* who need to wake up and smell the fertilizer. Because if the
US and Israel were to disappear tomorrow, the extremists would be coming for
them next.
-John
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| Go, Baby, Go!!! Talk about ethnocentric views -- could that author have had more ready judgments about other people and their way of life? And talk about your straw man arguments: Arafat at the head of a Palestinian state as the desired goal? (...) (23 years ago, 22-May-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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