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To: Bill who wrote (296097)9/12/2002 11:02:22 AM
From: RON BL  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 769670
 
"But the rest of us must be able to see through their moral fog and remain clear on why and with whom we are at war. Our enemies are the totalitarians who plunged Afghanistan into the Stone Age and who yearn to do the same to America. They are the people who want to stone that young mother in Nigeria and who drove those Saudi girls back into a burning building because their heads were uncovered"

Yet you will hear nothing out of the mouth of Anan about this or the practice of raping baby girls to cure Aids in Africa or the practice of slavery that the Moslems are inflicting on Christians. You will hear no warnings to Mogabe about the killing of the white farmers. You will hear no words about the starvation of Africa and the actual decimation of the environment that is going on over there but you will hear words attacking the US and jibberish about sustainable bs



To: Bill who wrote (296097)9/12/2002 11:12:19 AM
From: Neocon  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 769670
 
Quite a non sequitur, Bill. This is what I said:

It has nothing to do with whether or not one is guided by principle. It has to do with balancing principles in a particular application, as, for example, when one balances justice and mercy to come up with a good sentence after trial.......



To: Bill who wrote (296097)9/12/2002 11:58:53 AM
From: Neocon  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 769670
 
Yes, I think that Jacoby has it about right. Knowing the ideology behind the attacks, and given their grotesquerie, deliberately bringing about the indiscriminate slaughter of civilians, including children, there should not be much confusion about who the bad guys are. Also, one gets sick of the resistance to patriotism, as if love of one's homeland were a grave flaw......