--
James A. Donald:
> > The more Iraqi children the US napalms, the safer every US
> > resident who works in a tall building will be, and less our
> > cities will be troubled with protests.
Declan McCullagh
> I assume you're joking.
I am stating a fact.
It should be obvious I do not conclude that the government
should round up every Iraqi child, and every male in America
with an arab sounding name, and burn them alive, but were the
government to do so, that would be very effective in making us
safe from arabs and Muslims though far from effective in making
us safe from our government. Similar measures were successful
for communists, and met wide acceptance from Western
intellectuals and newsmen. Still do to this day. One of the
many Pulitzer prizes the New York times still boasts of to this
day was given for laudatory reporting of similar measures.
Similarly the French kissed the feet of the nazis, and spat on
the graves of the heroes who brought them freedom.
There is a regrettable but widespread human inclination to feel
that only those whose hand are red with the blood of innocents
are deserving of wealth and power, and to therefore strike out
anyone with wealth and power whose hands are not red, and that
attitude is very visible in the speeches of "Bin Laden", among
the protesters, and among some of those who posted to this list
objecting to the US adventure in Iraq.
--digsig
James A. Donald
6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG
4dP6/9Fhfmcs0iNekbG0Bt8hi7nnExY+o8L9PChE
4kZFmvALzX6VS72SUAlVBMzbNJRjFm2x/ClOJIcg+
