Re: GOV: US Reputation (RE: Arab World Stunned by Baghdad's Fall)

From: Mike Lorrey (mlorrey@yahoo.com)
Date: Wed Apr 16 2003 - 19:02:37 MDT

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    --- Samantha Atkins <samantha@objectent.com> wrote:
    > John K Clark wrote:
    > > hagbard@ix.netcom.com writes:
    > >
    > >
    > >>Justifying a pre-emptive strike without a smoking gun requires
    > >>your audience to believe in your voodoo.
    > >
    > >
    > > If I wait until your gun is literally smoking it's too late for me,
    > I'm
    > > dead. If I see you pull out a gun and point it at me I'm going to
    > do my damn
    > > best to get my gun smoking before yours. Is my "audience" happy
    > about that?
    > > I don't care. Am I "justified"? I don't care because I'm better
    > than
    > > justified, I'm alive.
    >
    > Do you care that you are alive as a lawless bully that very well
    > may have just killed other people for no reason whatsoever? Is
    > that life of the kind you want to live?

    Here is another example of why so many people on this list have little
    regard for your statements. By what morality, ethic, or logic is self
    defense to be considered 'bullying'?

    =====
    Mike Lorrey
    "Live Free or Die, Death is not the Worst of Evils."
                                                         - Gen. John Stark
    "Pacifists are Objectively Pro-Fascist." - George Orwell
    "Treason doth never Prosper. What is the Reason?
    For if it Prosper, none Dare call it Treason..." - Ovid

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