:) liked that message thread Howard. Can't identify why people haven't
retaliated. Japan shelved the issue and received funding to rebuild, as
did Germany... It seems Japan turned the screws to us economically..
fine as a form of warfare also.
understand if the US resorts to flying planes and bombing, you better
be prepared to live in a cave.
The world has avoided wars and confrontations in many regards and just
had exercises and similarly conflicts. For good cause this has been.
THe next generation of war will have unprecedented collateral damage
and great cost to military pieces. The US needs to quit defending the
world, quit issuing international aid and pay attention to the US...
Bush used the term conquest... incidentally this is the same guy
praying in his speechs and forcing Christianity down all diverse
throats.. When were the last conquests? I think they were forcing
Christianity then too...
The US supports internationalization of a selfish consumer culture with
no focus on community. It promotes deviance, drug addiction is
tolerated in part, it is acceptable for CEOs to launder and/or borrow
millions of dollars and bankrupt companies without retribution, we
promote payoffs but don't deliver protection... The US placed the
Israeli state where it is today and allows the unlimited transgressions
against Palestine... Understand these points are not exact truth, but
some of the matters fundamentalists and non-capitalists DO have a
problem with and a right to have a problem with.
Remember we made criminal the right to believe in Communism or
SOcialism. Out country blacklisted and even killed citizens over it...
Each generation, our country rids the most active agent of thought,
whether the thought in theory is better or not.
As far as I am concerned, we need to shut the door, protect our
soverienty and let that section of the world eliminate itself through
these civil wars. I would hate to see one more drop of American blood
spilled over such matters that we frankly, have no business being a
part of. Blame our intelligence community.... Seems like SAddam and
Bin Laden both are bad guys now... However it happened it is plain
stupid.
In war and in peace no action is cowardly, short of rape and abuse of
children. Death has never been called cowardly when it sneaks up in the
middle of the night however it does. These people did act cowardly, in
part, by not dressing in their non American garb, by not looking the
part. Beyond that it is a war of ideology.
The beast has so many tenticles in todays international war, it is hard
to say what it's face looks like. Certainly Bin Laden is only, perhaps,
in part, one block of a thousand. Don't be surprised what we all find
out in this journey.
[finding the future in the past, passing the future in the present]
[connecting people, places and things]
-----Original Message-----
From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2001 00:03:08 -0700
Subject: How Come?
> Yes, the U.S. has done some bad things in its history. But ...
>
> If the U.S. is so bad, how come the Vietnamese have never hired
> terrorists
> to fly our planes into our buildings, killing thousands.
>
> If the U.S. is so bad, how come the Chileans have never hired
> terrorists to
> fly our planes into our buildings, killing thousands.
>
> If the U.S. is so bad, how come the Mexicans have never hired
> terrorists to
> fly our planes into our buildings, killing thousands.
>
> If the U.S. is so bad, how come the Brazilians have never hired
> terrorists
> to fly our planes into our buildings, killing thousands.
>
> If the U.S. is so bad, how come the Panamians have never hired
> terrorists to
> fly our planes into our buildings, killing thousands.
>
> If the U.S. is so bad, how come the Philipininans have never hired
> terrorists to fly our planes into our buildings, killing thousands.
>
> If the U.S. is so bad, how come the Germans have never hired
> terrorists to
> fly our planes into our buildings, killing thousands.
>
> If the U.S. is so bad, how come the Japanese have never hired
> terrorists to
> fly our planes into our buildings, killing thousands.
>
> If the U.S. is so bad, how come the Chinese have never hired
> terrorists to
> fly our planes into our buildings, killing thousands.
>
> If the U.S. is so bad, how come the Koreans have never hired
> terrorists to
> fly our planes into our buildings, killing thousands.
>
> And obviously, I could go on.
>
> The U.S. has committed transgressions both real and imagined against
> many
> countries and many peoples. Some I can defend (Germany, Japan), some
> I
> cannot (Chili).
>
> But the point is, these peoples have not chosen acts of cowardice and
> reprehensible evil to seek revenge.
>
> It boggles the mind that so many people here seem quick to defend the
> terrorists and attack the United States.
>
> You can name me no transgression by the United States that could
> possibly
> justify this attack.
>
> Let me repeat that to make my point clear:
>
> YOU CAN NAME ME NO TRANSGRESSION BY THE UNITED STATES THAT COULD
> POSSIBLY
> JUSTIFY THIS ATTACK.
>
> Of all the peoples, the Muslim nations have the least to be angry at
> the
> U.S. about. We have made them rich. We have protected many of them.
> We have
> not taken any unjust acts against them. Yes, we've bombed some of
> them and
> we've supported their enemy Israel, but these are just and righteous
> acts.
> How come you never hear praise from the Middle East for the U.S.
> committing
> troops and sacrificing American lives to protect Muslims in Kosvo?
> Yet,
> this is the thanks we get.
>
> Most of the Muslim world is peaceful and peace loving. They want to
> see the
> lunatics removed from their midst as much as we do. It's about time
> we got
> busy taking care of business.
>
> There is also no justification for the U.S. not responding with
> military
> force.
>
> H.
>
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