[geeks] My take

[David Cantrell]

On Wed, Sep 12, 2001 at 07:34:54PM -0400, Mike Dombrowski wrote:

> Do you *really* think that letting more Americans die in the future 
> because of a failure of the US to take drastic enough action is not an 
> evil crime?

If you consider that the alternative is to become that which you most
despise* - that is, to gratuitously slaughter innocents - then it seems
to be the lesser of two evils.  The only way you could possibly justify
it would be to say that Americans are somehow worth more than others.

>             Coming from Britian you may think differently from us but 
> your country did the same thing last time they suffered an attack of 
> this magnitude. (WW2)

Yes, I know.  And as far as I'm concerned, the people who made those
decisions are criminals**.  Of course, the situation is radically different.
We were at war.  You are not.  But even so, the destruction of (eg)
Dresden and Hamburg and the slaughter of their populations was an act
of appalling barbarism which will live in infamy just as other terrorist
attacks do.

* - not that your govt doesn't do that already.
** - they're all dead now though

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

   The voices said it's a good day to clean my weapons