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To: Neocon who wrote (111671)	8/15/2003 8:11:51 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

<LOL! Life is not fair. Maybe in the next life you can be In Charge....... > Neo, Osama and co agree with you. Life isn't fair. Just fight for what you want and take it, or kill if they get in the way. That's the level of moral reasoning and international relations which resulted in 3000 pulverized people in Noo Yawk. You are welcome to each other. It's a shame people with that attitude drag so many others down with them. There's more to life than unfairness and being in charge. Actually, life can be fair and is fair between civilized people. That's the idea of judicial process, rule of law, habeas corpus, universal human rights [not special rights for Americans], and all that boring stuff. Voluntary interaction and exchange is intrinsic to fairness too. The aim is to remove the law of the jungle and replace it with the rule of rationality, ethics, morals, fairness, balance and those abstract things which chimps don't understand, or show only ephemeral allegiance to in a simple way to immediate buddies. We're making progress. King George II in charge of Iraq is a step up from Saddam's realm of carnage, cruelty and poverty [for Iraqis, not for him]. But having an unelected Emperor ruling the roost isn't ideal either. That's why King George's rule over the nascent USA was terminated by revolution and the Declaration of Independence. 4 July is something of a USA institution which I thought quite a few Americans have heard of. Maybe they don't understand what it was about. It doesn't seem that very many of them do. Having conquered Saddam's gang, the reported intention of King George II is to set the place up with Iraqis in charge, then leave them to it, having removed a continuing threat to USA citizens. We'll know within a year how that process is going and what the real intentions are. Uday and Qusay won't be funding any suicide bombers at Hebrew University which killed some American citizens. Nor will they give sanctuary to Abu Nidal or other global criminals. So far, so good, give or take a few glitches [if that's not a too cavalier way to refer to the continuing carnage in Iraq]. Mqurice