RE: POLITICS: US Citizen Killed by Israelis

From: Lee Corbin (lcorbin@tsoft.com)
Date: Sun Mar 16 2003 - 23:05:05 MST

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    Alex writes

    > The links:
    > http://news.google.com/news?num=30&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&q=cluster:www%2ekansascity2ecom%2fmld%2fkansascity%2fnews%2fbreaking%5fnews%2f5407570%2ehtm
    > 2ecom%2fmld%2fkansascity%2fnews%2fbreaking%5fnews%2f5407570%2ehtm
    >
    > or just
    >
    > http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&q=rachel.corey
    >
    > First of all let me put my political cards on the table:

    Thanks.

    > The fact that Corey was a commie pinko leftist politically-correct peacenik
    > is completely irrelevant to this case. What's relevant is the fact that, SHE
    > WAS AN AMERICAN CITIZEN.

    Why are you putting such emphasis on that? Would it be
    all right if she had been a Palestinian (supposedly)
    engaged only in peaceful demonstration?

    > The only justification of HAVING a foreign policy that I even
    > me close to buying is that if some banana republic death-squad
    > threatens my life, Uncle Sam is going to make some son-of-a-bitch
    > pay, no questions asked about who I vote for or why.

    Well, that's certainly not the ONLY reasons for me; but I
    concur that it should be a primary task of a nation to
    look out for its citizens wherever they may be.

    > Don't get me wrong-- the US government just might do the right thing on this
    > one. They might demand a public apology from the Israeli government, along
    > with proof that concrete measures have been taken to prevent this from ever
    > happening again.

    Wanna bet? I give odds of 2 to 1 against.

    Lee



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