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To: Elroy who wrote (243719)	10/2/2007 10:47:51 AM
From: Sun Tzu	Read Replies (2) of 281500

Don't you see the difference between those two examples? One is killing a foreign enemy in one's homeland. The other is a deliberate and systematic act of savagery over an extended period of time. Incidentally, are you ashamed of Russian Christians' treatment of Muslim Chechnians? And btw, not all Americans are as ashamed of Abu Ghrayb as you seem to think. Or at least they would have put in measures to make sure it will never happen again, rather than banning cell phone cameras everywhere so they will not be caught red handed the next time. There can be many perspectives on the same event, as pointed out by Douglas Adams long ago: "It is an important and popular fact that things are not always as what they seem. For instance, on the planet earth, man has always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much: the wheel, New York, wars. [...] Butconversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than men; for precisely the same reasons." "42. (The answer to life, the universe, and everything.)" Douglas Adams (The hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy)

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