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Politics : The Left Wing Porch -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Poet who wrote (4805)	5/14/2001 2:27:14 PM
From: The Philosopher	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 6089

an animal like McVeigh, who admits his guilt and even has the gall to call 19 dead children "collateral damage," Just who taught him to call the deaths of dozens of innocent women and children "collateral damage"? Let's not forget, he was in the military. The lack of concern for the deaths of innocent people who get in the way of our interests is well rooted in both our government--not just this one, but all recent governments--and our society. We wage bombing campaigns in Iraq, Kosovo, and elsewhere which we know will cause innocent civilian casualties because we don't want to risk American lives by a more targeted, on-the-ground presence which would almost certainly cause fewer civilian casualties but equally almost certainly cause more American casualties. We allow American companies to withhold AIDS medications from poor countries to protect patent rights. I can't go into the number of ways in which we allow or directly cause innocent deaths in pursuit of our national and societal policies. It's just that McVeigh learned the lessons a bit too well, and turned them back on those who taught them to him. If we don't want more McVeighs, it's past time for us to look at the kind of society we have created and the values we embrace as a society. Otherwise, we can hardly complain when others do as we teach them to do and call the deaths of innocents by the name we have taught.