Bob wrote:
> Actually, the suggestion is a good one. I don't see your point, Lasse.
Hi Bob,
I should have been more precise, I apologise for that.
My words about trolling is not directed at the suggestion for the reading, but at the
rest of the implications.
I think that Dan is being completely dishonest. He is, in bad faith, using me for his
political agenda.
In an earlier message he accused me of critisizing US policies, he accused me for
bringing it up this subject in a negative fashion and for mentioning this altogether.
He didn't bother to check the origin and the context of the quote (of mine) where the
Hiroshima bombings appeared.
If he had, he would have learned that 1) I was not the one who brought up this subject
in the first place. He would also, if he cared, have found that 2) I have not in a
single word expressed any criticism of the US. Not in any manner or form have I even
touched upon the big moral question of whether it was justified or not. Nor have I
blamed anyone or any US body, in the past or in the present, for anything in regards
to those events.
He simply jumped to conclusions and groundlessly attacked me for things I hadn't said
nor done.
In an earlier message I asked him a few questions of where, when and how I had said or
done what he accused me of. He didn't care to answer any of my questions, but rather
still implied that I was the one who brought up this subject, and critcised me for
this.
Now,
1) Dan has no idea whether I think that the US is evil, or not (in the past or in the
present), or if I have any opinion at all on the US in any respect (in the past or in
the present). Now does he?
Yet he tells the list that I think that the US is evil, to the point that no one can
talk me out of it.
2) I have not declared that the US should have acted otherwise. I have not expressed a
single moral opinion about the events.
I have already called his attention to this fact.
Yet he now again says that I "from a safe distance"(!) have declared that the US
should have acted otherwise.
This amounts to dishonesty to me. This, to me, amounts to common and intellectual
indecency.
It is in bad faith. It is trolling.
That was roughly my point, Bob.
As for the suggested reading, That's perfectly fine, in case I want to learn more
about that.
Lasse
> > Dan M. wrote:
> > > You want to believe the US is evil, and no one will talk you out of it.
> I still invite you to read "Flags of our Fathers" or one of the other good
> accounts of the battles at the end of the Pacific war, before you declare,
> from a safe distance, that the US should have acted otherwise.
> > Dan
> >
> > These are words of a troll, without a scrap of common or intellectual
> decency.
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