Drunken US Troops Kill Rare Tiger
Tim May
timcmay at got.net
Sun Sep 21 19:18:42 PDT 2003
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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