On Wed, 27 Oct 2004, Roy M. Silvernail wrote: > On Tue, 2004-10-26 at 21:10 -0700, James A. Donald wrote: > > -- > > James A. Donald: > > > > Moral equivalence, the rationale of those who defend > > > > tyranny and slavery. > > > > Roy M. Silvernail > > > Moral superiority, the rationale of both sides of any given > > > violent conflict. The winner gets to use the victory to > > > proclaim the correctness of their interpretation. > > > > A claim that presupposes that the west is just as totalitarian > > as its enemies, that well known reality is not to be trusted, > > that newsmen and historians are servants of the vast capitalist > > conspiracy, > > No claim in evidence. Just the observation that any justificaton for a > violent conflict is necessarily subjective.
It does not have to be *true*, you just have to get others to believe it. Of course, the current administration has been handing them example after example to point to to make the point... -- chown -R us ./base