On Thu, Oct 21, 2004 at 09:43:16AM -0700, James A. Donald wrote:
When people are under attack, you cannot tell them to suck it up, which is what you are doing. If we had no government, we
I'm not under attack. Are you? The Ghengis Khan thing's been a while back.
might well be doing pogroms against american muslims - and a good thing to.
This ways lies much rotting severed heads on stakes, and screaming. We've been there before. No need for a repetition.
War causes governments, and causes governments to gain power, but the US government was not the aggressor in this war. US
Your reality model is rather unique. Given that what your alleged representatives are doing results in massive loss of prestige, you don't want to associate with defectors. That stink's going to cling for a while.
government meddling in the middle east was unwise and unnecessary, but it did not provoke, nor does it justify, this war.
The intent of a large minority of muslims was to start a holy war between the west and Islam, and the majority of muslims
The only war there is was started by ShrubCo, and was tacitly approved by about half of your countrymen. This isn't Nuremberg, but I color your guilty.
lack the will or courage to stop them, or even criticize them. That was not the intent of Americans, or the American government. They started it, they meant to start it. Americans
Ha ha.
tried to avoid it, some of them are still trying to avoid it. All Americans are still trying to conduct the war on the smallest possible scale, against the smallest possible subset of Islam, disagreeing only on how small that subset can be.
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