From: Christian Szegedy (szegedy@or.uni-bonn.de)
Date: Fri Apr 11 2003 - 09:49:41 MDT
matus wrote:
> Where is the joy at the spreading of freedom and democracy on this list, is
> freedom and democracy not extropian, or are members of this list not
> extropians?
Of course, most western people (including the opponents of the war)
wished a quick and painless victory of the coalition, after the war
begun. It is a common misunderstanding that the opponents of the war
liked Saddam Husseins regime. It is just that they were afraid about
the loss of human lives.
OTOH, dancing people in the media does not mean too much. It means
about as much as the pictures of children that have loosed their arms
and legs and mothers wining over their dead children. These are
some real (or faked) singular happenings do not say too much about
the overall picture. In fact, there were a lot of people who have
welcomed Hitlers army as it occupied Paris.
You can always find the correct pictures to justify whatever you want.
We have to wait and look whether this is really the begin of
a free and democratic system, or just the change from an anti-American
regime to a pro-American one. Of course, the chances are very good that
it gets better. The question is: how much better does it gets?
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