Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2001 23:34:53 -0700 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in> Cc: Michael Lucas <mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org>, FreeBSD Chat <chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Another article, from the "other side" Message-ID: <3BB41A0D.9B62C67F@mindspring.com> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20010924170815.0180aee8@threespace.com> <4.3.2.7.2.20010924191808.0227cf28@threespace.com> <3BAFD532.6ED7A320@duth.gr> <4.3.2.7.2.20010926015428.01814630@threespace.com> <20010926125046.C1370@lpt.ens.fr> <20010926070519.A30531@blackhelicopters.org> <20010926132021.E1370@lpt.ens.fr> <20010926072915.A30655@blackhelicopters.org> <20010926140502.I1370@lpt.ens.fr>
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Rahul Siddharthan wrote: > Which is what America just refuses to realise. They virtuously call > it a "cowardly" attack on "democracy and freedom" -- as if he or his > followers care about how US citizens live their lives. Clearly, they cared about how the people in the Pentagon and World Trade Center lived their lives, or they wouldn't have terminated so many of them. > And, on this list and elsewhere, it seems that too many Americans have > this idea that to understand the man and his motivations is to condone > the attacks. This is incorrect. Understanding the man and his motivations is a very important thing, if the U.S. is to mercilessly hunt him down. > So they don't even want to know. I don't follow this. > Even if the only thing you read is pulp thriller fiction, isn't it > always considered important to understand the enemy? Isn't it even > possible to condemn the attacks and at the same time condemn the > policies that have led to such huge resentment in so many parts of the > world? Sure. But it's not possible to justify the attacks in terms of there being resentment, deserved or not. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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