From: Emlyn O'regan (oregan.emlyn@healthsolve.com.au)
Date: Thu Feb 20 2003 - 20:30:40 MST
> Cory writes
>
> > I've never read in a history book of an invaded
> > land...and I mean close enough proximity to see,
> > where people were holding a peace protest and
> > not scrambling for their lives. Am I wrong?
>
> Yes. Athens in the Peloponnesian War:
>
> While Spartan forces were marauding the countryside
> around Athens, the asshole Socrates and others were
> saying everything pro-Sparta that they could think
> of. A certain playwright was advocating peace and
> disarmament in his theatrical productions.
>
> The worst crime of it was that a number of people
> were listening to Socrates, and applauding those
> productions, and this at a time when Spartan
> tyranny was well-known. So next time some loony
> leftist seems to be going beyond all reason, just
> remember that so did "the wisest of them all".
>
> Alas, some people's emotions, healthy prejudices,
> and natural human common sense are simply broken.
>
> Lee
There are a number of people in this debate who pretend to be
undecided about the issue, but clearly are pro-war. For the
record, I'm extremely anti-war (hopefully that's not news).
Apart from anything else, Australia has been involved in far
too many wars of dubious merit (actually, downright stupid is
probably the best descriptor - gallipoli, vietnam, boer war?
probably lots of others but I'm no war buff).
Emlyn
Emlyn
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