Re: Keepin On...'Best Kept'

From: rdoubleu (rob1@audiogalaxy.com)
Date: Thu Sep 13 2001 - 00:08:39 CEST

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    One more thing:
    This guy is essentially making the same point I was, only a good bit more
    eloquently.
    http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2001/09/12/blowback/index.html

    Steve Catanzaro wrote:

    > You mean, unjust things like supporting Israel's right to exist? Checking
    > Sadaam Hussein's lust for unfettered power and control over the Arab world,
    > including probably those very territories which harbor terrorists? Precisely
    > what "unjust thing" did America do to the people / states / despots /
    > terrorist / dictators/ cowards / racist / bigot thugs who committed /
    > sponsored these acts?
    >
    > To those calling for compromise; compromise with who, and on what points?
    > Compromise with those who advocate the complete destruction of the state of
    > Israel? How, exactly, are we to do that, without complicity in both
    > anti-Semitism and genocide?
    >
    > So, we trained underground Afghanis to defend themselves against the
    > invading occupying Russian army. Most Americans at the time thought that was
    > a good idea. They have now turned this knowlege against us. Might as well
    > blame Embry-Riddle university for teaching men to fly, or Leonard da Vinci,
    > for dreaming that one day they might be able to.
    >
    > I realize that moral equivalence may be the hip, quasi intellectual
    > philosophy of the day, but I suggest its time to *wake up* and recognize
    > that evil exists in the world, and its manifestation has hardly been more
    > palpable since the 3rd Reich...
    >
    > I also submit that "many Americans do not realize" just how many people
    > around the world, even in the very same countries where people were jumping
    > for joy at the thought of American civilians jumping out of 100 story
    > buildings, would give anything for the chance to be American citizens.
    > America may be the most hated place on earth, but it is also the most loved.
    > That, too, is simply a bit of perspective.
    >
    > The point, as I took it, was that for many Americans, it is
    > > important to realize that we helped train and create the power-structure
    > for
    > > these "monsters," and left unsaid, but I think implied, is that while
    > > yesterday's attacks are some of the most evil, awful things we've ever
    > seen, the
    > > US *has* done many unjust things that have inspired hatred of us in the
    > rest of
    > > the world. Many Americans do not realize that. It's simply a bit of
    > > perspective.



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