From: hubert mania (humania@t-online.de)
Date: Sat Mar 29 2003 - 13:02:16 MST
Sorry for my ninth posting today. I promise to stop now.
Robert said:
> I refused to return my draft card during the Vietnam war until my father
> (who had served in WWII) made it clear he would throw me out of the house
> if I did not do so.
I am not familiar with the rituals of the US army. Is it correct to presume
that not returning your draft card meant to refuse service in Vietnam? So
your father as a WW2 veteran threatened to throw you out of the house if you
wanted to keep staying at his house?
> People who promote "peace at all costs"
If any mad dictator invaded your country I would help you without even
thinking twice. When the allies occupied Germany in WW2 it was a perfectly
justified step. The "ethnic cleanings" that Milosevic committed probably
justified the intervention of the Nato and Saddams atrocities also had been
worth another international intervention. Nothing wrong with that.
But what I fear is that this war might be the first step towards a new world
order where the law of the strongest, i. e. USA reigns. To invade a country
that did not attack you is morally despisable. Of course a rational mind
like your's will always be able to find applications to justify this action,
but it seems to me that you Americans are now stewing in your own juice. The
whole world is shouting at you and you do not want to listen anymore - I am
fighting a lost cause here on this list but on the planetary scale you are
isolated ...oh yes, of course Britain and Spain and Italy and Albania and,
but in the case of Aznar and Berlusconi: they have the vast majority of
their people against them.
I will not stop shouting, I am against THIS war. You are deadly wrong and
you should hear it again every day!
mania
formerly known as humania
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