On Fri, 14 Sep 2001, Rick Adams wrote:
> Michael Sylvester wrote:
>
> > Give back the land to the Palestinians and halt Israeli expansionism.
>
> Not to burst your bubble, Michael, but:
>
> 1. WE aren't holding the disputed land in the first place--so we
> can't "give it back."
>
> 2. Israel is a sovereign nation--do you suggest we use military
> force to control our allies expansion as a response to the use of
> violence against our civilians by their enemies?
>
> Sorry, Michael, but when terrorists try to control other nations
> by killing their civilian citizens, it's time to stomp out those
> terrorists. I've never supported Israeli expansion--but right now if
> they were to suggest that they needed the land occupied by Afghanistan,
> I'd be very tempted to offer to loan them the 182 Airborne to help out!
>
> You don't stop terrorism by capitulation--you stop it by
> inflicting such severe penalties on them that no one in their right mind
> would do it again. The USSR had a policy that if an aircraft were
> hijacked the terrorists would NOT leave it alive--NO negotiations, no
> exceptions. They didn't have very many (one) hijackings after they made
> that decision.
>
> I'm amazed that you would consider using the aftermath of this
> tragedy to put forward your anti-Eurocentric crap--amazed and offended.
>
> Rick
Let get to the roots of the past and current factors that contribute
to that type of insanity.
I have not mentioned Eurocentrism for over six months now.
Michael Sylvester,PhD
Daytona Beach,Florida
" one of the guidelines for critical
thinking is to avoid emotional
reasoning"
