> Ed Weick wrote:
>
> > With all due respect, Karen, anyone as big and powerful as the US writes
> > his own rules (masculine intended). Also appreciate that pillage has
> > always been a normal part of conquest.
> [snip]
>
> Well, you'd think "we" could write our own rules,
> wouldn't you?
>
> But just like a zillionaire who smokes a carton of
> Gauloises a day is not immune from lung cancer,
> so too, "we" are not inmune from 3rd world nobodies
> blowing holes in our most advanced destroyer warships
> or knocdking down our biggest skyscrapers with our
> own planes. Damn those AlQaeda oncogenes!
>
> > With all due respect, Karen, anyone as big and powerful as the US writes
> > his own rules (masculine intended). Also appreciate that pillage has
> > always been a normal part of conquest.
> [snip]
>
> Well, you'd think "we" could write our own rules,
> wouldn't you?
>
> But just like a zillionaire who smokes a carton of
> Gauloises a day is not immune from lung cancer,
> so too, "we" are not inmune from 3rd world nobodies
> blowing holes in our most advanced destroyer warships
> or knocdking down our biggest skyscrapers with our
> own planes. Damn those AlQaeda oncogenes!
Yes, it's terribly
unfair!
>
> But we aren't even into enlightened pillaging: This
> week the NYT said that Iraq's oil reserves are becoming
> increasingly unrecoverable due to the oilfields not being
> maintained right.
And damn Mother Nature and people who can't do things
right!
Ed
