No one has said "gee, its just fine we are killing innocent civlians". Thats ridiculous.
however, if we don't do something strong then more and more innocent people will die at the hands of terrorists. To some extent its a matter of mimizing the deaths of innocent people. > -----Original Message----- > From: Gary P. McNeel, Jr. [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, November 02, 2001 11:32 AM > To: CF-Community > Subject: RE: How long? > > I truly, truly feel sorry for people with the attitude that it is okay to > kill innocent people. How pathetic is that attitude. Yes, innocents will > get > killed. It happens. But this will continue to escalate. The world is a far > different place than a John Wayne movie (and yes, I do enjoy watching > them, > but I know they are fantasy, just my inner kid feeling some nostalgia). > > In them it is usually black and white, no shades of gray. Only, there are > many, many shades of gray. I like the idea or "theirs" and "ours". > "Theirs" > must not love their children, wives, husbands, parents, etc. We love > "ours". > "They" must not feel pain or regret. "We" do. > > This all sounds very Christian. I wonder what Christ would say about all > this? "We should nuke them, the heathens." What do they say in church? I > don't attend, agnostic, but I have to wonder. How do you reconcile this to > the Bible (there must be a way, it is written so cyclically that they must > have found some way to cover-their-asses). > > -Gary > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Marcus [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Friday, November 02, 2001 10:25 AM > > To: CF-Community > > Subject: RE: How long? > > > > > > this is war... In war, sometimes innocents get killed... > > > > But in war, we kill in order to save our own innocents. Such as the ones > > lost on 9-11, and the ones threatened now. > > > > Marcus > > > > > Please, this is happening all of the world. They are just in the > > > spotlight. > > > > > > Look a Rwanda a few years ago (and still a bit today), the Kurds in > Iraq > > > (who we did NOT support in their revolt against Hussein after saying > we > > > would), the Khmer Rouge years ago (Pol Pot), Bosnia (Milosevic), etc, > > > etc.... > > > > > > The world is full of atrocities. Advocating nukes is not the answer. > All > > > nuking Afghanistan or Iraq would do is make a lot of pretty glass > > > and kill a > > > bunch of innocent people. > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
