> Now I am not going to say that Israel is always our best friend, I can think of several espionage hearings, One where America withheld poison gas data that they were supposed to give to Israel that I can remember and others where it was America spying on Israel, but they're friends (Other than holding Pollard in captivity for spite).
> and the sinking of a certain naval vessel in recent history, Israel was cleared of it a number of times, but it always comes up. > however they are our closest ally in the region. We need to support their decisions, and honor their > sovereignty. Especially since the majority of attacks by Israel are either defense based. Well, the definition of close all depends on money. Saudi Arabia can be considered the closest ally in the region as we'll let them get away with anything in return for oil. We hold tight reign over Israel in MANY things. We're allies, but we always let them know who the 'top' in the relationship is. > Tim > > -----Original Message----- > From: Cantrell, Adam [mailto:Acantrell@;kentlaw.edu] > Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 2002 11:46 AM > To: CF-Community > Subject: RE: Robotic assassinations. > > > The reason I ask is because the conspiracist in me is wondering how long > before we start using these things on our own people as a secretive form of > law enforcement? Wellstone anyone? He was against the 'war'. I could see a > hard core war-monger interpreting this as a criminal act of treason. And if > it's as easy as moving a joystick around in order to make that criminal just > go away, then heck - why not? (don't call me on Wellstone - just speaking > figuratively and where the trend is going - I'm not going there to say > Wellstone was killed.) > > Today it's the 'terrorists' we're targeting, and using as an excuse to keep > our defense industry nice and bloated. But what happens when the terrorists > are defeated? Do we just fire the defense contractors and say "well, it was > nice building these little unmanned aircraft that are capable of shooting a > flaming laser down somebody's spinal column, but we don't really see a need > for that anymore". I doubt that happening. > > And Mike, to bring up Israel, and then use this as justification for what > they do is wrong. Your words were something along the lines of "All right - > Israel has been doing this all along. Now don't you see we are right?" > > This bears repeating since you keep bringing up Israel: > There is no difference between Israelis and Palestinians other than their > religion - this is why the world doesn't really do anything about it, and > just sits back in disgust. The fact that they're still at war over something > that most people stopped fighting for hundreds of years ago is in fact > disgusting. To continue on and try to make up other reasons is silly and > ignorant. If nobody was blatantly religious, nobody would know who to kill. > The hardline religion stops, the violence stops. The fact that you're > willing to die just because you're so attached to your religious beliefs is > your choice, and somewhat respectable, but don't expect the rest of the > world to support that. Shooting people with rockets is TEMPORARY; in the > long term it's just more fuel to the fire. Lightening up your religious > beliefs, and not discriminating against the people who have conflicting > religious beliefs will fix it. Since that won't happen with either the Jew's > or the Muslim's, then you'll just have to keep killing each other. Just > because one side uses sophisticated technology doesn't make it right. I know > you'll say it's the Arabs who are instigating and that you're just trying to > live in peace, but they're saying the same thing about you. > > You should also know that the US is taking advantage of the situation over > there - how you still don't see this is beyond me. Confilct in that region > is what keeps the US in control of the precious oil. Without conflict, that > region might *gasp* prosper, and actually establish itself. > > Adam. > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Cantrell, Adam [mailto:Acantrell@;kentlaw.edu] > > Sent: Tuesday, November 05, 2002 3:11 PM > > To: CF-Community > > Subject: Robotic assassinations. > > > > > > Surprised nobody has brought up the robotic assassination the > > CIA conducted > > on Sunday in Yemen. > > > > http://dsc.discovery.com/news/afp/20021104/ciadrone.html > > > > Basically they used an unmanned Predator aircraft to fire a > > Hellfire missile > > at some terrorists driving in a car. > > > > What do you think - cowardly or patriotic? > > > > Adam. > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=5 Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm
