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To: rrufff who wrote (4132)	10/27/2003 9:07:11 AM
From: epicure	Respond to of 20773

I am not defending suicide attacks, I do not even "accept" them. Please show me where I have ever done that, Mr. Logic. You've taken a bit of a leap there. "You can sigh all you want but most people feel that suicide attacks are not tactics that should be defended, particularly when they are against civilians, and, in this case, humanitarians." oh dear oh dear X is "horrified" by the attacks...that doesn't sound like "defense" to me...but maybe in your universe... " It doesn't make it right, and I happen to be rather horrified by the targeting of red cross workers, but you are being illogical by attacking their courage"

To: rrufff who wrote (4132)	10/27/2003 9:10:44 AM
From: Dale Baker	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 20773

If I may, just a comment on the difference between recognizing something and praising it. If someone acted with strong emotion to sustain a violent action, we have to recognize the strength and tenacity of that emotion and consider it in the overall picture of a future Iraq. I find any attacks on civilians and aid workers appalling. Personally, I can't begin to grasp the moral framework it takes to blow up Red Cross workers or shoot up a schoolyard over a drug deal. But it happens over and over and over, and we have to deal with it. How, without embarking on a scorched earth policy and free fire zones? I don't have an easy answer. Just wanted to point out how recognition is so easily twisted into a false endorsement in today's political debate. Which is also sad. JMHO - not meant as an attack at all.