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Re: Protests too much
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Thu, 12 May 2005 08:37:24 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Joseph Greene wrote:
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Dave Schuler wrote:
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Joseph Greene wrote:
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Similarly, I don’t recall the CNN piece about the US’ use of phosphorous
bombs on civilians in Falluja--can someone point me to it?
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Well, as callous as it sounds, I do believe that after 2000+ years of
continuous war in the middle east the term ‘innocent civilian’ is an
oxymoron when referring to that part of the world.. just my mean spirited
opinion...
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I agree that it sounds callous and mean-spirited, and in raw pragmatic terms
it’s just not a helpful course to pursue. By that same logic, we in the
United States have been involved in well over two centuries of continuous
war, so anyone could simply start killing US civilians with essentially
equal justification.
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Two words: Carpet Bombing
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So genocide as a tool of war remains on the table for you? Thanks, but I’d
like a different table.
Two other words: Campaign Bombing. As in “This whole stupid campaign
is bombing, which is to say that it’s all a miserable failure.”
Dave!
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Maybe I should rephrase that, I believe that If we could trust them to only
bomb the begeezers out of each other, we should leave, and simply ignore
their existence until the stop the fighting. But they won’t keep it within
their own hemisphere even..So if we can’t leave them be safely... Then play
big or stay at home. Beside genocide would entail the destruction of the
human race, not merely a couple of small countries.
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Not quite true.
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Oh, yeah and 200 years is
only a tenth of the time they’ve been initiating hostilities against each
other and the rest of the world, so I don’t believe there’s much comparison.
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Yeah... but many of the recent conflicts were aided by Washington. Think about
how SH got WMD.
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Additionally, the US rarely instigates a war, although we seem to finish
enough of them after someone takes a potshot at us...
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Tell that to the millions slaughtered at the hands of Washington in South-East
Asia. What about Washington’s recent meddling in Central America? Its current
support Israel, Uzbekistan and perhaps even Sudan?
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I would certainly
consider 9/11 a significant potshot...
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Ugly as it was, have you ever thought about why that pot-shot was taken?
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Or Saddam’s early 90’s threat of
nuclear action... I’d rather the world got along, but if it can’t, I’m all
for eliminating the antagonists.
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Based on my viewing of “In the line of fire”, I thought threatening your
president was an offence? ;)
Scott A
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| (...) <SNIP> (...) Gotta love how languages change. Geno meaning race as in Genus Thus Human = Human Just my take. (...) Yeah, from some capitalist pig, whether that pig was from US, China, Japan, Russia who knows. (...) Meddling in Central America, (...) (20 years ago, 12-May-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| (...) Maybe I should rephrase that, I believe that If we could trust them to only bomb the begeezers out of each other, we should leave, and simply ignore their existence until the stop the fighting. But they won't keep it within their own (...) (20 years ago, 12-May-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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