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Re: Arrogance floats amongst the stars...
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Wed, 12 May 2004 14:36:44 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Don Heyse wrote:
> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, David Koudys wrote:
> > I'm almost at a loss for words.
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> [big snip] Doesn't seem that way. :)
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> > Now it's a totally differnt ball-game. We see the 'enemy' for what
> > he really is--a spiteful, vengeful group of people who have *no*
> > consideration for people who aren't them. Iraq isn't the issue.
> > Iraqi people probably just want to go about their daily business and
> > be left alone and let 'the powers that be' go do something else. But
> > these extreme religious zealots who can hack off a person's
> > head and hold it up for the world to see... that's an entirely
> > different matter.
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> I don't understand what's different? That's what it's always been
> about.
Maybe Dave just realised it (again?)... it's easy to lose sight of how bad the
bad guys are when what you mostly hear about is how bad the good guys are.
Where was the outrage in the media at all the previous atrocities by the various
thuggish regimes, gangs, and fanatics in the region?
Answer: it's not newsworthy, the same way Dog bites Man isn't newsworthy. But
Man bites Dog??? THAT'S newsworthy.
And to a certain extent that's as it should be. The good guys should be held to
a higher standard. I'd just like to see the bad guys held to SOME standard by
those complaining about the good guys... else those complaining have no
standing.
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| (...) Dogs don't know any better. They didn't 10,000+ years ago, and they won't know any better 10,000+ years from now. Men, on the othe hand, are suppose to have this capacity for change, for conscious reasoning, for saying "Just because I can do (...) (20 years ago, 12-May-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) It's equally easy to lose sight of how bad some of the good guys can be when we mostly hear about how good the good guys "are." (...) I think that's the essence of it. We didn't just go in there to stop a bad guy from doing bad things--we (...) (20 years ago, 12-May-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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