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Politics : Stop the War! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: zonder who wrote (12377)	4/11/2003 4:42:11 PM
From: MulhollandDrive	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 21614

actually i meant apropos are you going to point out that i also neglect to capitalize my words as well. do you think i don't know the rules of capitalization due to that fact? :) yes i do have a nice reserve of quotes....you're online. so do you... i use quotations when i feel my point has been made previously by another either more eloguently or succinctly than i could do so myself. sometimes to lend (say it low) gravitas...sometimes dry and sardonic wit.... now back to the subtance of the "argument" as far as "countering your argument".....the "argument" was being made within the context of a preemptive war with a particular regime ..."some enemy" ....saddam... therefore ENTIRELY apropos my point. the discussion is about the war, not about zonder. i'll leave my interpretation of the sun tsu quotes which i cited to stand ....and leave it to the reader to decide who correctly interprets his words vis-a-vis this war. (please note i left off the accent agrave since i'm typing this on the fly and do not wish to look up the html code....bet you knew that though)

To: zonder who wrote (12377)	4/11/2003 4:50:52 PM
From: average joe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 21614

This is my favourite Sun-Tzu story... "Although almost nothing is known of the life of Sun-tzu, his tract, The Art of War, has been one of the most influential military handbooks in world history. Legend has it that he served the Wu dynasty after being challenged by the emperor to make an effective army out of his concubines. Sun-tzu placed the emperor's two favorites at the head of two different files of concubines and when they failed to discipline their charges he cut their heads off despite the protests of the emperor. After that the concubines drilled effectively. He became known as Sun the warrior and is reputed never top have lost a battle. " acc6.its.brooklyn.cuny.edu

To: zonder who wrote (12377)	4/12/2003 1:01:47 AM
From: Rainy_Day_Woman	Respond to of 21614

can you imagine? dropping an 's' how shocking I'm sure no one reading that understood her point at all due to all the confusion she created by dropping that little 's' and after all, the spelling here is so much more important than the point, true? how magnanimous of you to point that to our poor feeble minded BP some would think it is snotty, the fools do you think pointing out everyone one's spelling and typos is anal retentive? oh, btw, your "Did you mean a propos?.... This is why it is difficult to talk to you" - shhhh, she wasn't talking, she was typing