On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 09:09:50PM -0700, Lan Barnes wrote: > What I support is good international police work to catch the criminals > who attacked us in NYC and DC, coupled with military action as in > Afghanistan ONLY when a government supports the criminals.
But isn't that what we're basically doing? > I'm sick to death of the US government declaring "wars" on habits, ways of > life, economic ideas, and asymetrical conflict techniques. Why not a war > on fatigue? On clashing colors? > > It's stupid jingoism designed to make us give up our frontal lobes (and > wallets). Actually the moniker "War on Terror" is not one of the best. What would be more accurate is probably "War on Islamofascism". But if Bush used that, it would almost surely be abused and offend others. So his hands were tied. cs -- KPLUG-List@kernel-panic.org http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list