US Retardation of Free Markets (was Airport insanity)

[alan]

On Wed, 27 Oct 2004, Roy M. Silvernail wrote:

> On Tue, 2004-10-26 at 21:10 -0700, James A. Donald wrote:
> >     --
> > James A. Donald:
> > > > Moral equivalence, the rationale of those who defend 
> > > > tyranny and slavery.
> > 
> > Roy M. Silvernail
> > > Moral superiority, the rationale of both sides of any given 
> > > violent conflict.  The winner gets to use the victory to 
> > > proclaim the correctness of their interpretation.
> > 
> > A claim that presupposes that the west is just as totalitarian 
> > as its enemies, that well known reality is not to be trusted, 
> > that newsmen and historians are servants of the vast capitalist 
> > conspiracy, 
> 
> No claim in evidence.  Just the observation that any justificaton for a
> violent conflict is necessarily subjective.

It does not have to be *true*, you just have to get others to believe it.

Of course, the current administration has been handing them example after 
example to point to to make the point...

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