on Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 05:57:06PM -0500, Jim Choate (ravage@einstein.ssz.com) wrote:
On Thu, 25 Oct 2001, F. Marc de Piolenc wrote:
David Honig wrote:
Personally I'd prefer a non-colonial foreign policy that doesn't generate such antipathy.
And if you believe that WTC had anything to do with US foreign policy, or that we would cease being targets if we e.g. dropped suppport for Israel, you are living in a dream world and have "bought" the terrorists' propaganda.
Then why?
Read your Aesop: the thief needs no excuse.
We need to send a message that "armed propaganda" is not an acceptable form of self-expression, no matter what the alleged cause.
Review the American revolution and the current news before you follow this little meme very far.
What goes around comes around.
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