Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2003 21:58:11 +0100 (CET) From: "=?iso-8859-1?q?Pedro=20F.=20Giffuni?=" <giffunip@yahoo.com> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: WTC Payoff [11 september] (was Re: oh my god the nasa shuttle blewup) Message-ID: <20030204205811.84340.qmail@web13406.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <3E3F6B9F.CFC27B05@mindspring.com>
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--- Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> ha scritto: > > [ ... list of disbeliefs about behaviour ... ] > > None of this is "dumb behaviour resulting from the > attack on the WTC". > Yes it is, the US failed to provide security for it's citizens and while they claim to be doing all this for their "wonderful nation", they are damaging the relationship with their environment. Some guy I met in Spain said "I am not happy about 9/11 but it serves them right". > So how, specifically, does this make the attack on > the WTC > "effective"? What is the "effect" it has had? > It has made a growing number of humans in the planet join a the club of people that hates americans. The objective of the terrorists were to: 1) Generate a "jihad" against the Americans that oppress their countries. 2) Show that America was (is?) vulnerable and make them fear. ... > But so far, the continued existance of the U.S. has > not been > credibly threatened. > I do think the values for which America once stood are lost. The freedom that the US once had was seriously hurt after Sept. 11. > Let me be blunt. > > Some people in the world don't seem to understand > the concept > of "Total War". Realistically speaking, no country declares "total war" to another. You are trying to explain rationally something that is not rational (war). By creating new terms to explain irrational behaviour you are just justifying Sept. 11: a "total war" would mean US citizens are targets, no matter if they are innocent or not. > > Let me also point out that we have had nearly 60 > years, in the > interim, to improve our technology. > And you have not achieved many results. Osama bin Laden and the Mullah Omar escaped. ...<snip> > > If it comes down to "us or them", I have no doubt > the U.S. > *will* "solve the problem"; perhaps by engineering > an enthnicity > specific class 5 pneumo-virus, most likely > targetting mitochondrial > DNA, which is inherited matrilineally, using > information obtained > from the human genome project, to destroy its > enemies utterly, down > to the last living cell, before letting them destroy > the U.S.. Sound like racism to me. Assuming you can distinguish between Europeans and Americans, would you accept collateral damage? .. let's say the many minorities that are composed of US citizens? ... > > All I can say is God help the terrorists, if they > ever succeed in > becoming a credible threat to the continued > existance of the > U.S., because the U.S. believes in Total War. > they are scared, no doubt! <sight> ______________________________________________________________________ Yahoo! Cellulari: loghi, suonerie, picture message per il tuo telefonino http://it.yahoo.com/mail_it/foot/?http://it.mobile.yahoo.com/index2002.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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