Re: GOV: US Reputation (RE: Arab World Stunned by Baghdad's Fall)

From: Samantha Atkins (samantha@objectent.com)
Date: Wed Apr 16 2003 - 01:46:49 MDT

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    John K Clark wrote:
    > hagbard@ix.netcom.com writes:
    >
    >
    >>Justifying a pre-emptive strike without a smoking gun requires
    >>your audience to believe in your voodoo.
    >
    >
    > If I wait until your gun is literally smoking it's too late for me, I'm
    > dead. If I see you pull out a gun and point it at me I'm going to do my damn
    > best to get my gun smoking before yours. Is my "audience" happy about that?
    > I don't care. Am I "justified"? I don't care because I'm better than
    > justified, I'm alive.

    Do you care that you are alive as a lawless bully that very well
    may have just killed other people for no reason whatsoever? Is
    that life of the kind you want to live?

    -s

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