[geeks] Re: [rescue] God bless America

[David Cantrell]

[taken to geeks cos it's waaaaay off-topic.  flames will be ignored]

BSD Bob wrote:

> Why is it that terrorists of any kind, never learn from history but
> always choose to repeat it...

For the same reason that the US doesn't seem to learn from history but
always chooses to repeat it.  People are stupid.

But you really should consider that terrorism has proved to be rather
effective in the past.  It has achieved a great deal for people all
over the world, ranging from the state of Israel (founded by terrorists),
South Africa, Ireland (both the republic and the occupied zone), France,
and others.

"G W Adkins" <gwadkins at erols.com> wrote:

> And [we should kill] those groups who blamed our foreigh policy for
> these attacks

I guess that includes me then.  I don't think many Americans realise quite
how much they are hated by the huge numbers of people who are victims of
your government's foreign policies.  You crow about your much-vaunted
democracy, and yet you fail to use your democracy to elect decent people,
instead electing racist war-mongers.  THAT is how much of the world sees
you, and your failure to use that democracy, unfortunately, makes many
see individual citizens as being the enemy.

Y'know, I find the vile reaction of a great many American citizens who I
had thought were decent, intelligent people to be far more disturbing than
the attack itself.  That 'only' killed a few thousand people, but there
are literally *hundreds* of thousands of innocent casualties of US foreign
policy.  And now, there seems to be a clamour to make even more of them.
There's plenty of you (both on this list and more generally) who should be
ashamed of yourselves.  I imagine that most will be when they get over the
immediate emotional impact.

-- 
David Cantrell | david at cantrell.org.uk | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david

Cutting the space budget really restores my faith in humanity.  It
eliminates dreams, goals, and ideals and lets us get straight to the
business of hate, debauchery, and self-annihilation.
                -- Johnny Hart