Re: Drunken US Troops Kill Rare Tiger
At 06:35 PM 9/21/03 -0400, Tyler Durden wrote:
"I no longer consider 9/11 a terrorist act."
Fuck. I've been nearing a similar conclusion, though from an entirely different, uh, line of approach. Though I don't consider having quite crossed that line yet.
I guess in the end we are responsible for the actions our government takes. And if we remain ignorant and continue to benefit (and do nothing to stop it), then we are responsible, particularly when our military represents an outrageously assymetric invasionary force.
If you pay taxes, you are a terrorist. Even if you pay them under threat of violence, as most do. 9/11 was a commando/specops operations against an invader on par with Rome. If the US were invaded by troops from Arabia, one would expect that American Patriots (tm) would perform similar military actions. What part of "beware foreign entanglements" does Congress have a comprehension problem with? Give part of germany to the jews, and give palestine back to the arabs, and blame the history of British imperialism. Buy whatever oil, hash, carpets you find on the free market. ---- Trade with all, make treaties with none, and beware of foreign entanglements. -George Washington
On Sunday, September 21, 2003, at 04:55 PM, Major Variola (ret) wrote:
At 06:35 PM 9/21/03 -0400, Tyler Durden wrote:
"I no longer consider 9/11 a terrorist act."
Fuck. I've been nearing a similar conclusion, though from an entirely different, uh, line of approach. Though I don't consider having quite crossed that line yet.
I guess in the end we are responsible for the actions our government takes. And if we remain ignorant and continue to benefit (and do nothing to stop it), then we are responsible, particularly when our military represents an outrageously assymetric invasionary force.
If you pay taxes, you are a terrorist. Even if you pay them under threat of violence, as most do.
America is the world's leading terrorist state. "My name is Tim, and men with guns take a lot of money from me each year. I am a terrorist."
9/11 was a commando/specops operations against an invader on par with Rome. If the US were invaded by troops from Arabia, one would expect that American Patriots (tm) would perform similar military actions.
As horrible as 9/11 was for the 3000 or so victims and their families, it was not much more than hundreds of thousands of victims of American terrorism have suffered around the world. I'm glad I wasn't a victim...but, then, I figured out many years ago that living in a Schelling point for reprisals against American terrorism was not a smart thing to do. And I discovered that helping Delta and Jet Blue go bankrupt through not flying was smarter than being a sitting duck victim of Spec Ops vs. Al Qaida turf wars.
Give part of germany to the jews, and give palestine back to the arabs
Give the Jew invaders of Palestine a 10-minute lesson in swimming, hand them a pair of water wings, and tell them to swim for their lives. With luck, only one in 100 will make it to the point where Do-Gooder rescuer ships make them welfare burdens on America. --Tim May "We should not march into Baghdad. To occupy Iraq would instantly shatter our coalition, turning the whole Arab world against us and make a broken tyrant into a latter- day Arab hero. Assigning young soldiers to a fruitless hunt for a securely entrenched dictator and condemning them to fight in what would be an unwinable urban guerilla war, it could only plunge that part of the world into ever greater instability." --George H. W. Bush, "A World Transformed", 1998
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