From: Michael Wiik (mwiik@messagenet.com)
Date: Sun Jun 15 2003 - 13:36:32 MDT
Lee Corbin writes:
> Doesn't it bother you at all that you would consider the
> Baathist murderers to be analogous to the U.S.'s original
> revolutionaries and founders?
While far from identical, they would share a number of facets. As in, if
I was designing a database to track down these people, I might include
insurrectionist tactics from many different cultures and times. I would
never compare the U.S.'s original revolutionaries and founders to
sadistic Baathist murderers, just that both groups might make use of the
same stratagems and such have attributes in common.
> Those like Saddam Hussein
> ---criminals against humanity of the first degree--- need
> to be hunted down after they lose wars!
Yeah it's a lot easier than hunting them down after they win wars.
Considering all the bombing the US has done, it's no wonder muslims hate
us and become terrorists. So why not just rename 'civilians' to
'potential terrorists'? That way we can say that US troops killed x
thousand Iraqi troops and x thousand potential terrorists. No civilians
were killed at all! Like that poster kid w/o the arms: he could've used
those later in life to throw a grenade at US troops! (he might have
reasons, like the US killing his family.)
> Exactly the same thing was done to the Nazi organization
> after WWII, and ought always to be done. Because if it is
> not done, a ruthless minority of fanatics will once again
> assume power, and the atrocities will go on and on and on.
> It's how history works, unfortunately.
Yes, but analogous to overuse of antibiotics, the overuse of force has
only created super-resistant terrorists. (Cf. the 'TV Funhouse' cartoon
(on Sat Night Live) where Hussein and UBL can shapeshift into innocuous
typical desert objects when US troops approach). And isn't it ironic how
we've accomplished two of UBL's goals: leave saudi arabia and bring down
the secular Hussein regime.
I recall some opinion piece in WaPo where the writer suggested that
Microsoft, Sun, and Oracle launch a 'Digital Marshall Plan'. He
suggested Sun supply the servers while MS supply desktops. Oh yeah I can
see that happening. In any case a digitized Iraq, full of educated young
men resentful at the occupation but too intelligent to face overwhelming
US firepower, could probably turn out some hellacious encryption and
anti-echelon software. Gee, wonder if there would be a market for that?
-Mike
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