-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 19-Dec-03, at 2:35 PM, James A. Donald wrote:
-- On 18 Dec 2003 at 21:57, J.A. Terranson wrote:
Yet, I shed and continue to shed tears for a race of people that refuses to respect the rights of men and their nations. Like the Soviets. Or [now], the Americans...
Such high moral sentiments from someone who claims that Americans deserved 9/11 and have no right to whine about it.
Nations are not morally entitled to any rights. They have rights merely by habit and convention, a convention formalized in the peace of Westphalia, and now at long last fading.
Interresting note. Did they deserve 9/11? If you go by "eye for an eye" then yes. If you think that Ossama (if it was him) and his cronies are evil, then yes, they deserved it too (wasn't Jesus all about suffering for the greater good?). If you think that nobody has the right to terrorism than they didn't. But neither did the Iraqis during the sanctions, nor the countless people who died in South America because the "good guys" were waging a war. Let's not even talk about all the things that were done by the "good guys" in Vietnam. M. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 8.0.3 iQA/AwUBP+NspWlCnxcrW2uuEQIQRACeLIEpk760YpoNgMSsa1IZzg20ZusAoKmI IIo6dnih7/pjDBcd1sbkVB0C =kya6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----