At 03:42 PM 9/14/01 -0700 Jeffrey Miller wrote:
>Hmm, all the talk about "nuking them back to the stone age" really
>doesn't bother you at all, does it? What exactly would qualify as
>warmongering to you?
Whoa, what "talk?" I think that Guatam initially was referring to
tactical nuclear weapons, not city-bombs, an even then he has distanced
himself from that comment.
Other than a few uneducated civilians, who is producing "all the talk?"
>> What we do about terrorism is up for debate, of course. But to condemn our
>> response so far as jingoistic and warmongering and a grab for power is
>> nitpicking, croccodile tears, and absurdly unfair.
>
>What's unfair is using a cranky message of mine about the shallow,
>hollow response to grief by using staged and orchestrated media events
>and presenting them as spontaneous reactions of a hurt nation to vent
>your own feels at the matter and wrap yourself in the flag of
>reasonablness while painting me with a vicious brush. Thanks.
Understood.
>From my own personal experience, however, I strongly advise against
posting cranky messages in the future.
JDG
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"Freedom itself was attacked today, and Freedom will be Defended."
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