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To: "Brin-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, September 14, 2001 2:46 PM
Subject: Re: Who did it?
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> Gautam Mukunda wrote:
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> > (...) If a foreign government killed 5000
> > American citizens and we _aren't_ supposed to go to war
> > over that, when the hell are we supposed to go to war?
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> If a foreign government killed _one_ American citizen
> in an act of war, then I think the USA should go to war.
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> I hope this has never been in question here.
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> The two questions are:
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> (a) _if_ it's not a foreign government
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> (b) _how_ should the USA [and all allies that -
> again, I guess we *all* agree - will join] should
> wage this war
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> Alberto Monteiro
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> But it does seem to me to have been called into question. I read people
> saying that we shouldn't use violence to retaliate for fear of a cycle of
> hatred, things like that. If a foreign government did this, helped Bin
> Laden (or his equivalent) do it, or shelters whoever did it - then they
> have committed an Act of War against the United States and should be
> treated as such. When you commit an Act of War, you get a violent
> response. When you commit an Act of War against the United States, you
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> a _really_ violent response. We just lost the first battle of the first
> war of the 21st century. The United States historically _always_ loses
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> first battle of any war in which it engages. It also, however,
> historically usually wins the last one.
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> Gautam
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Dogmatic pacifism is roughly equivilent to stupidity, and is not a survival
trait.
xponent
rob
