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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank
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To: Lane3 who wrote (38483)11/23/2001 8:16:14 PM
From: Jorj X Mckie  Read Replies (1) of 82486
 
Modern warfare does not require combatants to stand in a line with a bunch of redcoats and be shot at to demonstrate courage.

OBL's actions were no more an act of warfare than those of Charles Manson's. The parallels between them are worth considering. I believe that Manson's actions were cowardly and I believe that OBL's were for the very same reasons.

-Both used religious fanaticism to manipulate others to do the crimes for them
-Both were using the crime under the auspices of instigating a larger conflict (Black vs. White, Islam vs. The World).
-The target of the attacks for both were unsuspecting and for all intents and purposes, defenseless civilians.
-Neither were present at the actual crimes against the individuals who were harmed.

Again, I am not saying that the actual Manson family members who did the crimes were necessarily cowards nor am I saying that about the actual hijackers. But I am saying it very specfically about both Manson and OBL.

Do you believe that Manson's crimes were an act of war? If not, how do you differentiate what OBL did that justifies calling his crimes an act of war?

Just because OBL insists on calling it an act of war does not mean that we have to buy into his propaganda. And we certainly shouldn't buy into it more than we would buy into that of our own government.

Frankly, I find that buying into OBL's propaganda that these terrorist actions were an act of war, gives him far more legitimacy than he deserves.

And just to head of a logical next question, the reason that a military response is justified against OBL is that an agency of an actual state prevented this from being handled as a criminal procedure.
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