From: Gautam Mukunda [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
snip >> democracy one day in the future. However, I doubt >> that makes living in such turmoil any easier on a >> day-to-day basis. >Again, _they_ don't think so. You don't think >midnight raids and large-scale arrests happened >before? Some time looking at the mass graves would be >instructive, in that case. At least the people >arrested aren't dropped into paper shredders now. >You _can_ make this argument, I guess, but actually >_making_ it makes you an apologist for one of the most >brutal dictators in human history - you have to >believe all of the propaganda that he and his >supporters put out. Are you willing to go that far, >Ritu? I dont get this sort of black and white thinking. It scares me as much as the mob violence we saw on TV. I had no time for Saddam or his regime. To suggest that just questioning the outcomes of the war is somehow supporting Saddam is ludicrous, and well, the way you phrased it, somewhat offensive. We are getting the same thing in our politicans here, an overt and agressive sensitivity to even the mildest questioning of the how and why the war is going. All I can put it down to is that whatever self-delusional rationale they used to justify the war to themselves has worn so thin that any mention of it not being a 100% rolled gold success grates against whatever remains of their morality. It seems a clear sign of moral paranoia. I didn't like Sadaam, and I dont like what is happening in Iraq now. I can hold both those postitions and still sleep at night. The only way I could take your position is to deny that there was any other possible approach to dealing with Saddam than the one we chose. And that is patently untrue. Andrew
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