From: Platt Holden (pholden@sc.rr.com)
Date: Sun May 23 2004 - 14:55:53 BST
MSH writes:
> Here, it might be useful to reiterate Platt's understanding of
> Terrorism: Deliberate attacks against defenseless civilian
> populations in an attempt to achieve political ends, unless such
> attacks are carried out by the US or any of its allies.
Wrong (as usual). Platt's understanding of terrorism is the same as Pirsig's:
"The idea that biological crimes can be ended by intellect alone, that you
can talk crime to death, doesn't work. Intellectual patterns cannot directly
control biological patterns. Only social patterns can control biological
patterns, and the instrument of conversation between society and biology is
not words. The instrument of conversation between society and biology has
always been a policeman or a soldier and his gun." (Lila, 24)
You can only defeat criminals (invaders and terrorists) by meeting them on
their own terms. MSH, DMB and others who share their radical left views would
rather sit down and chit-chat over a couple of beers with Bin Laden like
Chamberlain tried with Hitler and Roosevelt with Stalin. The folly of such
appeasement, and the truth of Pirsig's insight, has been borne out by
history.
Platt
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