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Politics : Bill Clinton Scandal - SANITY CHECK -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: one_less who wrote (11343)	10/27/1998 3:27:00 PM
From: Charles Hughes	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 67261

>>> just bring on some more expletives to hide behind. Um, my thesaurus says an expletive is a 'cuss word' or a 'swear word', and I didn't cuss at you. I lampooned you, which is a whole other thing :-) >>> So now we are lowering the standards of the actions of the American Military? Not me. This is not carpet bombing villagers, nor dropping napalm on refugees. We seem to have gotten over that tendency for the nonce. No, I'd say the US military survives this comparison pretty well. After all, most of these 'terrorists' are just covert paramilitary adjuncts to the foreign policy of countries other than the one you live in. (As most people seem to use the term, anyway.) So I think it's comparing apples to apples. Their forces blew up a thousand innocent civilians, we blew up one. They acted first, we reacted in a measured way. They recently fought a war where poison gas was used on twelve year old soldiers, we had professionals bombing professionals in the most surgical manner. We may have made a mistake with the plant, or not. They didn't give a damn about mistakes, except the mistake of being caught. So, I don't think I have to lower any standards to excuse our side here. For the military, this kind of action is very restrained indeed, considering what their job normally entails, and the difficulty of keeping all the worms in the can when things are exploding around you. Adios, Chaz