From: Mike Lorrey (mlorrey@yahoo.com)
Date: Mon Mar 17 2003 - 07:46:18 MST
--- Lee Corbin <lcorbin@tsoft.com> wrote:
> matus writes
>
> > > "Screw Vietnam."
> >
> > Well that certainly seems to be the general attitude of most
> > Americans, then and now. Who cares? They aren't people, right?
>
> Why exaggerate the attitudes of those you disagree
> with? After all, you have *plenty* of good points
> in the following.
I would retort to Matus that this attitude seems, rather, to be the
attitude of the French and Germans now. Screw the Iraqi people, right?
Who cares if they want democracy? They aren't French or Germans, so
they aren't people, right?
>
> > Never mind that millions of Indochinese people were
> > slaughtered and enslaved. They weren't Americans, we
> > didnt know any of them, right?
>
> That's not the reason that so many liberals can't get
> excited about them, and prefer never to think about
> what happened there.
>
The Iraqis aren't French or German, and the only Iraqis any French or
German people know are jackbooted thugs in Saddam's regime that French
and German companies are doing deals with, so who cares about the Iraqi
on the street? They are obviously beneath contempt for letting such
jackals rule them, they must be the sort that NEED to be ruled with an
iron fist, like we French did in Indochina and Algeria, like we Germans
did wherever we could get away with it.
> The real reason is that to bring all that up does nothing
> to criticize the great Imperialist power, the U.S. How
> would exposing real crimes of Saddam's regime, or China's
> or the other Communist regimes help deflate the U.S.?
> As some (a few, granted) on this list have actually
> described it, the "most genocidal nation in history", the
> one currently ruled by "inhuman paranoid and future war
> criminals", what matters is only whether or not the
> influence of the United States is curtailed or not.
Funny how those who are most opposed to a preemption policy seem so
willing to use such a policy against we alleged 'future war criminals'
here in the US.
>
> Well, why not? Well, I will tell you why not. Because taking
> over Ruwanda to suppress genocide would not in any way advance
> the interests of the U.S. in the world situation. Therefore,
> it would be unobjectionable!
>
> I was recessed from this list when Clinton invaded Bosnia.
> Were the same usual suspects making a fuss then? (I really
> would like to know, thanks.)
Yes, they were making a fuss, and exaggerating anything the US did and
completely misconstruing the Geneva Conventions which they have never
seemed to have read, then or now.
=====
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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