The point made was "we befriended him and now he's hurting us, so because we
befriended him, it's now our fault that he's hurting us." I'm trying to
point out how ridiculous that line of thinking is. If we do in support of a
seeming friend, are we therefore doomed to suffer his slings and arrows when
he turns on us without fighting back? Yes, it's a sad irony that we once
supported Bin Laden as we once supported Saddam and as we supported the
Japanese before WW II (the planes used to attack Pearl Harbor were mostly
built with American scrap metal). While it is easy to look back with 20-20
vision and say we should not have supported these people (and I agree, we
should not have and I can't think of a good justification for doing so), to
say we now deserve to die because of it is so ridiculous, it's insulting.
I used a clich�d example of neighborliness. I'm sorry you missed the point.
H.
-----Original Message-----
From: Trent Shepherd [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, September 14, 2001 2:32 PM
To: CF-Community
Subject: RE: They (Americans) can't see why they are hated
Sugar, where did you get the idea for sugar. Let's be realistic. If you
supplied arms to your neighbour and said "go and kill these people because I
don't like them either". Are you not saying that killing is OK? So Bin Laden
turns around and decides he does not like you, what happens you've already
said go and kill people you don't like.
This is all about arms, murder, violence nothing about sugar.
trent
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> If my neighbor asks me to borrow sugar and I loan it to him and then the
> next day he breaks into my house and steals all of my sugar, am I just
> supposed to sit back and do nothing?
>
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