From: Samantha Atkins (samantha@objectent.com)
Date: Mon Mar 03 2003 - 03:39:13 MST
spike66 wrote:
> Kai Becker wrote:
>
>>
>> IMO, bin Ladin has perfectly achieved his goal. He turned some hundred
>> million positive thinking people into chicken-hearted rabbits being
>> afraid of an imaginary snake, and made a super-power change its course
>> from free, democratic and peaceful prosperity to less democratic hyper
>> security and war...
>
>
> This kind of notion is what motivates governments
> to go to *any* extreme to deal with the source of
> threats, in a courageous attempt to restore the
> former sense of peace. Bad move, Kai.
It is a very unbelievable bluff of a move to imply that the
actions being taken by our government at this time have anything
to do with restoring a presumed "former sense of peace". Doing
that does not necessitate and cannot be acheived by declaring an
"unending war" against "unknown numbers of enemies" at "unknown
costs" which justifies preemptive strikes any time we wish. It
certainly doesn't require decimating what is left of the Bill of
Rights and the Constitution. It doesn't even require making up
a fairy tale in order to invade a MidEast country we would like
to own/control..
Terrorism has become the new boogie man to justify any sort of
outrageous action the US government chooses to take at home or
abroad. What is being done purportedly to fight terrorism is
much worse than the threat of terrorism itself.
- samantha
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