RE: [irtheory] War ain't beanbag. Irony is conserved.

2004-06-13 Thread R. A. Hettinga
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Re: [irtheory] War ain't beanbag. Irony is conserved.

2004-06-13 Thread Yeoh Yiu
Thomas Shaddack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >Exactly at which point does a war (any war) stop being defensive > > >because according to the history books the US has never fought an > > >aggressive war. > > > > I prefer to think about the McDonald's paradox: No country that has a > > McDonald's

[irtheory] Re: War ain't beanbag. Irony is conserved.

2004-06-13 Thread R. A. Hettinga
rtheory] Re: War ain't beanbag. Irony is conserved. Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] RAH; Thank you for the perfect illustration of pure evil, and the perfect illustration of how ones altruistic nature and desire to do good can lead one to support crimes against humanity so long as they are committ

RE: [irtheory] War ain't beanbag. Irony is conserved.

2004-06-13 Thread R. A. Hettinga
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ah. Here we go. A "liberal" hides behind the straw man, this time in the shape of a child. How original. At 3:37 PM +0100 6/13/04, Lee James wrote: >I'd like to hear how children who werent old enough to pronounce the >colour were 'reds' who were righ

[irtheory] Re: War ain't beanbag. Irony is conserved.

2004-06-13 Thread R. A. Hettinga
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War ain't beanbag. Irony is conserved.

2004-06-13 Thread R. A. Hettinga
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At 6:11 AM + 6/13/04, Carmi Turchick wrote: >Here is more about the connection between the death squads and the >policy of genocide and our own American facility, the School of the >Americas... Yawn. War, to paraphrase a famous American income-red

RE: [irtheory] War ain't beanbag. Irony is conserved.

2004-06-13 Thread R. A. Hettinga
At 4:53 PM -0400 6/13/04, R. A. Hettinga wrote: >When they signed an agreement saying that nuclear war was unwinnable and >should happen, they lost, right then and there. ^^^ I plead excess haste, m'lord. I meant shouldn't happen. Cheers, RAH -- - R. A. Hettinga The Internet

Re: [irtheory] War ain't beanbag. Irony is conserved.

2004-06-13 Thread R. A. Hettinga
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RE: [irtheory] War ain't beanbag. Irony is conserved.

2004-06-13 Thread R. A. Hettinga
At 10:17 PM +0200 6/13/04, Thomas Shaddack wrote: >Weapons can mean a lot, but they are far from being everything. Tell that to the USSR. An economy produces weapons. Just the prospect of a new battlefield, real or not, coupled with the largest military buildup in history, crushed them. When the

RE: [irtheory] War ain't beanbag. Irony is conserved.

2004-06-13 Thread Thomas Shaddack
> >Exactly at which point does a war (any war) stop being defensive > >because according to the history books the US has never fought an > >aggressive war. > > I prefer to think about the McDonald's paradox: No country that has a > McDonald's has attacked another. :-). Then either the paradox is

Re: [irtheory] War ain't beanbag. Irony is conserved.

2004-06-13 Thread R. A. Hettinga
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