From: August West (augustwestd@yahoo.com)
Date: Mon Dec 15 2003 - 16:47:20 GMT
platt,
I question whether this isn't apeasing terroists.
This makes the arguement for terror stronger.. look at
any newspaper for the last four months.. terrorism
never stopped.. it was more frequesnt.. and it hit
allies and potential allies of the united states...
declaring war over now is foolish..
going in an invading a country for its pollitics has
never succeded.. and never will.. it always escalates
the problem.. look at latin america.. and africa.. and
the mid east.. we've been doing it for a long time..
its imperialism.. it makes us rich them poor..
it doesn't help a thing..
I also want to tip my hat to DMB for a well written
and well thought out letter about this issue..
peace,
-August
--- Platt Holden <pholden@sc.rr.com> wrote:
> Hi DMB, Jon, All
>
> > Platt said:
> > We went there (Iraq) to root out and destroy
> terrorists--a biological
> > blight on humanity. Yesterday, we captured one of
> the worst terrorists
> > in history,
> > right up there with Mao, Stalin and Hitler. The
> fight will continue as long
> > as one terrorist remains. And rightly so.
> >
> > Jon said:
> > Iraqi Freedom will go down in the history books as
> the most moral war in
> > human history. ... A kind of universal joint has
> been shifted, creating one
> > of those rare seismic jolts that history rarely
> notes more than once a
> > century or even once a millennium. ... Never in
> their wildest dreams did
> > the Founding Fathers, those men who liberated
> America from a Tyrant,
> > imagine that one day the children of their
> Freedom, children of their
> > struggle for Dynamic Quality, would cross a mighty
> ocean to free the people
> > of Babylon from a Tyrant. I think they'd be proud.
> I know I am.
> >
> > dmb says:
> > The apocalyptic grandiosity of your comments
> reveals an irrational and
> > mythic view of things, gents. I'm amazed that
> anyone buys into Bush's
> > religious "rid the world of evil" rhetoric, let
> alone grown men who are
> > interesting in philosophy, the love of wisdom.
>
> I'm amazed that anyone interested in philosophy,
> especially the MOQ with
> its major premise of freedom being the highest good,
> would come to the
> defense of the likes of Mao, Stalin, Hitler and
> Saddam.
>
> > The most painful thing about
> > this attitude is that it plays into the hands of
> Al Qaeda. This is the
> > approach that will turn the actions of a handfull
> of fanatics into World
> > War Four, it changes a crime into a protracted war
> that has no limits in
> > time or space. This attitude is self-defeating and
> only makes the world
> > more dangerous, especially for Americans.
>
> Further, I'm amazed that anyone with even a cursory
> knowledge of history
> believes that the world will be safer by appeasing
> terrorists.
>
> Those who wring their hands about America's
> "self-righteousness" or
> believe that good or bad is "a matter of opinion"
> should ponder Pirsig's
> words as reported by Anthony McWatt:
>
> "All wars are a struggle between good and evil."
>
> "Some concepts of good are absolutely superior to
> other concepts of good."
>
> Finally, it's amusing (and sad) to see those who
> oppose the war on
> terrorism finding it necessary to stroke their egos
> by calling those who
> support the war "irrational," "fanatic" with
> intelligence on "a downward
> slide." It seems liberals have a genetic
> predisposition to argue by
> insults, probably because even they realize deep
> down that their beliefs
> are objectively and logically insupportable.
>
> Platt
>
>
>
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