You are free to pretend whatever you wish, I won't make any personal comment on that.
The issue, however, wont' go away -- the disregard of human in life in foreign policy, taking back seat to ZB-style world "chessboard" domination, for the world's own good, of course. This quite naturally evolves into the positions we've been discussing -- ever-increasing levels of violence, benefitting only the profiteers and entrenched insiders, and even they only temporarily.
The Bush/Cold Warrior path is: from "self defense" to "preemptive strikes" to "use WMDs on them if they use them on us", and next we'll hear rumblings about "preemptive use of WMDs on them before they use them on us"...
A downward spiral, with no restraint.
The "undeterrables" had nothing to lose by killing themselves and a few thousand, soon they'll have nothing to lose by killing millions of Americans.
I'm sure there's something funny about that somewhere, I'll keep trying...
What deflates my sense of humor are authors such as Bill Joy and his "The Future Doesn't Need Us" thesis, which examines the likelihood of ever-smaller groups creating ever-larger dangers to society... We have no monopoly on techniques for large-scale death -- information, including WMDs, is irreversible. If taken seriously, what that thesis means is we have no longer any choice -- simply increasing the level of violence only increases the threat levels to ourselves.
Sorry, it's not intended as a harrangue, just the discussion of a serious issue, maybe the most serious we've got. |
