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To: goldworldnet who wrote (6606)5/22/2006 3:00:48 PM
From: goldworldnet  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 14758
 
(September 24, 2001) about the immediate aftermath of the September 11th, 2001 attacks. Sontag wrote:

"Where is the acknowledgment that this was not a 'cowardly' attack on 'civilization' or 'liberty' or 'humanity' or 'the free world' but an attack on the world's self-proclaimed superpower, undertaken as a consequence of specific American alliances and actions... [I]f the word "cowardly" is to be used, it might be more aptly applied to those who kill from beyond the range of retaliation, high in the sky, than to those willing to die themselves in order to kill others. In the matter of courage (a morally neutral virtue): Whatever may be said of the perpetrators of Tuesday's slaughter, they were not cowards."

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To: goldworldnet who wrote (6606)5/22/2006 9:03:24 PM
From: PatiBob  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 14758
 
That doesn't make a lick of sense to me. I don't care what race you are, it's just dumb and stupid.

BTW, I did look up deride so I know what you were talking about.<g>