[1077] in peace2
Re: MSNBC News Link: Taking on the anti-warriors
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alan Donovan)
Wed Oct 3 19:17:20 2001
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Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2001 19:16:30 -0400
From: Alan Donovan <adonovan@lcs.mit.edu>
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spa-discuss@MIT.EDU wrote:
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> society of politcal discussion sent you this MSNBC News Link:
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> Pacifists are intellectually dishonest? Would Osama bin Laden
> give up today if America suddenly decides to do everything
> peace-list wants it to do?
Of course not. However the author of this article, apart from being
clearly an asshole, is talking total rubbish: he says "[Osama bin
Laden] has promised further attacks such as September 11 unless the
United States sues for peace". Er, bin Laden hasn't even accepted
responsibility for the attacks. "So do others; for instance, Saddam
Hussein." He's just making this stuff up.
"Do the pacifists wish to live in a United States that has been
defeated by Osama bin Laden?" This kind of talk is surely meant
to evoke the situation at the start of WWII when Europe was attacked
by one of the strongest industrial countries in the world -- not a
bunch of guerillas so small the CIA doesn't even know where they are.
There can be no "occupying power
"..
alan
P.S. Check out this letter (below) from CEO of coffeecup.com to
1.3 million of his customers (talk about abuse of email). He's
turned his entire company's website into a bulletin board for
xenophobes. http://www.coffeecup.com/attack/letter1.txt
"The Team at CoffeeCup would like to send our heart felt
sorrow to those that perished in these attacks."
[Unconventional: the tradition here is send condolences to
the families of the dead]
"We would like to also say on record that if any country
is found responsible for these attacks, we call for that
country's complete destruction and annihilation."
[A sense of proportion is so important in the pursuit of justice]
--
Alan Donovan, MIT Lab. for Computer Science | adonovan@lcs.mit.edu
