In a message dated 9/24/01 12:17:17 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
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> .
> I completely disagree with the Rev. Vince vis a vis the Taliban. Bin Laden
> by all reports has been inextricably one with them. The U.N. was originally
> conceived as a world body that would crack down on rogue fascist states like
> the Taliban...with force.
> I respected most of the other posts, Rev. Vince and I appreciate your
> duties
> as a man of the cloth and related pacifism. But with this last one, I have
> to
> beg to disagree. If Colin Powell can make this a U.N. backed effort, taking
> out the Taliban, with its attendant subjugation of the Afghanistan people
> is a proactive and liberating event.
>
Or to put it in simpler terms, pacifism is fine as a global THEORY, but when
faced with real-life terrorists or fascists, pacifism is a theory for fools
and cowards.
Paul I
