Neverending Cycle ( was : Re: USPS: glowing by leaps and bounds )

[Karsten M. Self]

on Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 05:57:06PM -0500, Jim Choate (ravage at einstein.ssz.com) wrote:
> On Thu, 25 Oct 2001, F. Marc de Piolenc wrote:
> 
> > David Honig wrote:
> > 
> > > Personally I'd prefer a non-colonial foreign policy that doesn't generate
> > > such antipathy.
> > 
> > And if you believe that WTC had anything to do with US foreign policy,
> > or that we would cease being targets if we e.g. dropped suppport for
> > Israel, you are living in a dream world and have "bought" the
> > terrorists' propaganda.
> 
> Then why?

Read your Aesop:  the thief needs no excuse.

> > We need to send a message that "armed propaganda" is not an acceptable
> > form of self-expression, no matter what the alleged cause.
> 
> Review the American revolution and the current news before you follow
> this little meme very far.
> 
> What goes around comes around.

I tend to think of this as similar to cancer:  there's a stochastic
element, but there are environmental and hereditary factors as well.  I
do think we'll have to give up some bad habits.  Spontaneous incidents
will persist, however.

Peace.

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