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To: Sun Tzu who wrote (88957)4/1/2003 8:54:43 PM
From: The Philosopher  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 281500
 
I don't answer hypotheticals that have no basis in reality. What's the point? They are functionally meaningless.

It's as though I asked you: Let's say there's a policy that will kill Sun Tzu and his entire family -- wife, children, if they exist, siblings, cousins, all of his family. All wiped out, in excruciatingly painful deaths, perhaps being burned alive. But it will save the lives of 5,000 Congalese plus 5,000 neo-Nazis. Will you disapprove of it?



To: Sun Tzu who wrote (88957)4/1/2003 9:20:39 PM
From: quehubo  Read Replies (3) | Respond to of 281500
 
ST - You have this argument ass backwards. We are paying with American lives and some innocent Iraqi lives to remove an oppressive regime. The lives of millions of people will be improved for generations.

I would not trade the lives of 50 US soldiers to save 1,000 Iraqi civilians.


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