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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: J. C. Dithers who wrote (90787)	12/6/2004 7:40:07 PM
From: Grainne	Respond to of 108807

I do not think it is fair to limit what the blue side might do to start a revolution. After all, the red side has every advantage. I could not imagine anti-war protestors bringing in mercenaries who would send out pregnant women, or children, as suicide bomber, or who would kidnap and chop off the heads of non-combatants, though. I do understand why these things are happening in the Arab states. As Rick Steves pointed out in the excellent article I copied to the thread, when a country is as militarily powerful as the United States, terrorism is the only potentially effective way to fight back. We can see today that this is extraordinarily successful. I would suggest that if we want to stop the above heinous acts, we apologize and leave the area, because it doesn't look like our troops are going to win (unless we just nuke the area). Of course, we have blood on our hands and I see no moral superiority on our side. Abu Ghraib (I can never remember how to spell this), plus our careless bombings that kill innocent men, women, children, wedding parties, doctors and patients at hospitals, etc. certainly portray America as evil. But I digress. The blue side in a domestic revolution would probably be all about nonviolent protests--you know, Buddhist monks setting themselves on fire in front of the White House, massive peace demonstrations, civil disobedience of all kinds. It is too bad there aren't any really dynamic leaders of such a rebellion coming forward, and that we don't have Bob Dylan or John Lennon doing the music.