Re: War arguments

From: Samantha Atkins (samantha@objectent.com)
Date: Wed Jan 22 2003 - 10:58:58 MST


John K Clark wrote:
> "Samantha Atkins" <samantha@objectent.com>
>
>>I do not see that unmitigated good came
>>from the attack on Afghanistan. I would not call it "victory"
>>[...] I don't see how it is an unmitigated good to go
>>attack any/all nations we feel like are "evil"
>
>
> By the quotation marks I assume you think they were not evil, well ok, if

The point of the quote marks is that any such attack is to be
justified on our sole discretion according to Bush statements.
Anyone we so label, for good reasons or not, can be preemptively
attacked. This is dangerous.

> you think an injustice was done it may not be too late to put things back
> the way they were one year ago. Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar is
> probably still alive, we could put him back in power and he could get out
> his trusty chain saw and get back to the important business of cutting off
> the hands of people who committed dreadful crimes, like flying a kite or
> humming. Osama Bin Laden may be alive too, we could rebuild his terrorist
> training camps and apologize for any inconvenience we may have caused him.
> Samantha, is this the policy you are advocating? If you really mean what you
> are saying and are not just producing hot air then you must be.
>

The rest of this is a waste of space as you studiously avoided
actually understanding what was written.

- samantha



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