From: Lee Corbin (lcorbin@tsoft.com)
Date: Tue Mar 11 2003 - 20:28:34 MST
Arti writes
> What *I* want to see is an international poll to see what percentage of
> people in the world think that if the international community fails to act
> firmly now against the UNITED STATES, then the world will become a more
> dangerous place in years to come?
Act firmly? You mean, like pass a lot of resolutions?
Yes, why doesn't the rest of the world (not including the dozen
or two dozen European countries, not including Australia, not
including..., etc.)? It would be a fine thing. Perhaps that
"rest of the world" could pass oh, say, about two hundred
resolutions. For you, I even have a numbering scheme in mind:
1442 - U.S. Out of Iraq
1443 - U.S. Out of Iraq
1444 - U.S. Out of Iraq
1445 - U.S. Out of Iraq
...
1641 - U.S. Out of Iraq
I'm sure that you'll feel *so* much better. After all, look
how much satisfaction you got out of all those U.N. resolutions
imploring Saddam Hussein to do this or that. Yes, let's have
some more resolutions!
> But then again, what does public opinion REALLY have to do with what's going
> on in the world today.... seems to me like the ones in power don't care to
> listen to reason,
You suppose that you and the people who agree with you have a
monopoly on reason? You don't think that the nations of the
world with their think tanks and paid professionals standing
on decades of tradition and experience don't "listen to reason"?
> care for peace, or care to stop or lessen the REAL
> suffering in the world. $#^@% all this stuff about
> 'perceived threats', sheesh!
Okay, who cared more for peace: Neville Chamberlain or Winston
Churchill? Listen, "caring" for peace on a superficial verbal
and emotional level is one thing; coldly calculating how to
achieve it is another.
I'm alive today because the leaders of the U.S.S.R. and the
leaders of the U.S.A. coldly calculated their way to real
peace. Guess what would have happened if we in the West
had listened to all the peaceniks?
Lee
P.S. The answer: I'd be dead, Comrade Artillo.
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