[2] Re: "Give peace a chance"? NAH...

[J.A. Terranson]

On Wed, 20 Oct 2004, James A. Donald wrote:


> James A. Donald wrote:
> > > > > ... but Bin Laden's indictment not only mentions US
> > > > > troops in Saudi Arabia, but also the reconquest of
> > > > > Spain, the massacre committed by the crusaders in
> > > > > Jerusalem, and the failure of Americans to obey Shariah
> > > > > law.
>
> J.A. Terranson
> > > > Whats good for the goose is good for the gander, right?
> > > > The US can go after BL for not following US
> > > > [constitutional] law, so why can't he come after us for
> > > > not following Shariah (or any other) law?
>
> James A. Donald:
> > > But these laws are not as like as geese and ganders.  The
> > > US goes after Bin Laden for murdering people.  Bin Laden
> > > goes after us for not accepting second class citizenship
> > > under Muslim rule.
>
> J.A. Terranson
> > No. He goes after us for the very same reason: for [our]
> > murdering of *hundreds of thousands* of people, both directly
> > (Iraq) and by proxy (Israel).
>
> What then is the reason for the murder of Afghans and Sudanese?


As much as I hate to followup to myself, I can't help this one: I just
fucked up.  In my earnest to provide a timely answer (at a moment when I
am precisely *out* of any time whatsoever), I made the wrong choice by
trying to reply at all.  What came out was a single line of words which
had concepts so compressed that they were lost amongst the very bits
surrounding them: my one line flippant and idiotic looking answer is just
meaningless, and pointless.  I should not have given in to the urge to
reply *now* just because I wanted to put *something* on the record before
I could approach this properly (read: at lengths I didn't have available
at this moment).

I both apologize for this idiocy, and retract that crap answer I just
foisted upon you and the rest of the readers - that I spewed it at all is
embarrasing enough!

I promise to answer this properly, but I'm afraid it'll have to wait till
saturday for me to have the time to do it right (the way I *should* have
done it three minutes ago, or else STFU).

Sorry - you (as in the cosmic "you" as well as in "JAD") deserved better.
Hell, so did I.

Barf...

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>          James A. Donald

Did that make any sense to anyone but me?

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J.A. Terranson
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