To: arun gera who wrote (8814 ) 11/4/2001 12:24:10 AM From: Bilow Read Replies (2) | Respond to Hi arun gera; Re Chomsky's argument that indirect effects should be counted...Indirect damage matters! Ask the firemen and cops who perished in the WTC. " (1) I can't, they're dead. (2) There were no firemen or cops killed in Somalia.Are you going to count the deaths of the postal workers in the anthrax cases as victims of terrorism? " Yes. "But theoretically they could have been saved by Cipro administered at the right time. " If your aunt had balls she'd be your uncle, but what does that have to do with Chomsky's argument about the indirect deaths in Somalia? By the way, my guess is that it's homegrown terrorists that did the anthrax.Why are so many us in USA so eager to bomb the hell out of other countries without understanding fully the reasons? Is it because our civilian populations have never been bombed? " Yes, American citizens are quite bloodthirsty and really don't care much about the effects of American foreign policy. You can go into any bar and find this out. But it has nothing to do with our citizens having never been bombed. You can go into any bar on the planet and observe the same human behavior from the citizens of that nation, whether they've been bombed or not. Yes, there's a lot of talk about how compassionate they are, but the fact is that this planet is populated with the descendants of the people who killed the losers. What do you expect from them?this is what passes for normal behavior among homo sapiens. At the time I was horrified by it, as were a lot of other Republicans. there are no safety nets such as social security and medicare " there, and when they lose their jobs making stuff for export to the United States there will be pain unimaginable.
