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> Van: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Verzonden: Tuesday, September 11, 2001 7:56 PM
> Aan: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Onderwerp: Re: Attack
> If the US would be crazy enough to use nuclear weapons, then you better
> pray that your god has mercy on all Americans -- because there is no
> doubt in my mind that many more of them will then die in terrorist
> attacks.
> Jeroen, let me be really clear on this. It seems reasonable to believe
> that some number of Americans well over 10,000 - quite possibly as high
> as 50,000 - innocent Americans were murdered by animals today for the
> "crime" of being Americans. If we find out that another country was
> responsible for this assault, a nuclear retaliation would be
> appropriate and proportionate to what has just happened.
Who in that country do you believe organised the attack? The population as a
whole, or the government? I will bet you a month's salary that it was not
the population as a whole. A nuclear strike would however punish that
population, for the "crime" of being citizens of that country. That is no
more justified than attacking American citizens for the actions of the US
government.
I agree that whoever has organised this must be punished -- but if a country
is behind it, see to it that the government officials who planned it are
punished, not its population.
> I find it astonishing that _even you_ would make your first statement
> after this massacre be critical of our response.
No, I was critical of you advocating taking revenge by killing thousands,
maybe millions of innocent people in a nuclear attack.
> Given what has just happened, we can respond however we damn well
> please, and the rest of the world had better either help us or get the
> hell out of our way. We are at war. We just don't know whom we are
> going to make suffer because of that. We soon will. When we find out,
> those cowards will be exterminated.
I know emotions run rampant in the US right now, so I am going to cut you an
awful lot of slack. Nevertheless, statements like yours scare the hell out
me, and make me hope that the US is not run by people like you. The last
thing this world need is some hothead who decides to launch a few nuclear
missiles, and possibly start World War III.
> I don't think there's anyone in the United States who is feeling
> particularly merciful right now. Any country that harbored these
> people would, I have no doubt, be considered immediately at war with
> the United States. And the world has not seen what that means in full
> for 56 years.
> But it is about to find out.
That scares me even more. I agree that whoever is responsible for this must
be punished; I can even imagine that the US will declare war on the country
that is behind this. But the way you put it, you do not just want the US to
take revenge, you want to drag the whole world into war with you.
Jeroen
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