No you imbecile, I'm telling no one anything, other than you to get a clue. Where did I tell people who are under attack to suck it up?
All I did was point out that you weren't there and therefore any comment you care to make about it is bound to be flawed. Please find yourself a clue store and open your wallet - wide. ----------------------Kaos-Keraunos-Kybernetos--------------------------- + ^ + :"Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. /|\ \|/ :They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country /\|/\ <--*-->:and our people, and neither do we." -G. W. Bush, 2004.08.05 \/|\/ /|\ : \|/ + v + : War is Peace, freedom is slavery, Bush is President. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- On Thu, 21 Oct 2004, James A. Donald wrote: > -- > On 21 Oct 2004 at 10:26, Sunder wrote: > > IMHO, you are a misguided armchair general who sees yourself > > as equal to those scumbags that have risen in power to lead > > or enslave nations since you seem to constantly say "they > > should have done X, and not Y" > > When people are under attack, you cannot tell them to suck it > up, which is what you are doing. If we had no government, we > might well be doing pogroms against american muslims - and a > good thing to. > > War causes governments, and causes governments to gain power, > but the US government was not the aggressor in this war. US > government meddling in the middle east was unwise and > unnecessary, but it did not provoke, nor does it justify, this > war. > > The intent of a large minority of muslims was to start a holy > war between the west and Islam, and the majority of muslims > lack the will or courage to stop them, or even criticize them. > That was not the intent of Americans, or the American > government. They started it, they meant to start it. Americans > tried to avoid it, some of them are still trying to avoid it. > All Americans are still trying to conduct the war on the > smallest possible scale, against the smallest possible subset > of Islam, disagreeing only on how small that subset can be. > > --digsig > James A. Donald > 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG > YeXgmiDN23gKNejAXLPSgfGxzFPVqFa/9pEDbWNr > 41sYVdSvXQCEQniQVEIYWhWw2HjtvpvuHtQ0QXUaI >