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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
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To: Proud_Infidel who wrote (197095)10/28/2001 6:18:04 PM
From: greenspirit  Read Replies (1) of 769670
 
res- In reality, we wouldn't have a free country without killing people to defend it.

How do you know that? pacifism was never attempted by the US.

I know what we have, and I understand how we obtained it. Since, as you say, its never been been attempted. How do you know your non-violent way would have worked?

If Ghandi's path is the only right path, why have hundreds of thousands of Indians been killed since Ghandi? Why has starvation and poverty been such a problem there? Why were millions of people forced to leave sections of India into what became Pakistan? Why couldn't Hindu's live in peace with Muslims? Why does India have nuclear weapons? Why can't they live peacefully with Pakistan?

If Dali Lama's path is the only right path. Why does the Dali Lama live in the United States? Why are Tibeten's persecuted and controlled by the Chinese after more than 40 years of rule? Why don't the Chinese leave Tibet? Why doesn't Tibet have it's own country? Dali Lama would be dead today if he didn't have another country to flee to. He lives behind the American wall of weapons which protects us all.

Show me where your path has worked long term? Show me a nation, built and maintained on the premise of non-violence, without an army to defend itself, living prosperously.

Just one....
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