From: rhinoceros (rhinoceros@freemail.gr)
Date: Tue Jul 30 2002 - 06:33:45 MDT
[Joe Dees]
It has been recently been graphically and blatantly illustrated that *some* members of this list are as enthralled to knee-jerk extremism as is this woman, just in the opposite direction.
[From the article quoted by Joe]
This is no time to be precious about locating the exact individuals directly involved in this particular terrorist attack Those responsible include anyone anywhere in the world who smiled in response to the annihilation of patriots like Barbara Olson.
We don't need long investigations of the forensic evidence to determine with scientific accuracy the person or persons who ordered this specific attack. We don't need an "international coalition." We don't need a study on "terrorism." We certainly didn't need a congressional resolution condemning the attack this week. The nation has been invaded by a fanatical, murderous cult. And we welcome them. We are so good and so pure we would never engage in discriminatory racial or "religious" profiling.
People who want our country destroyed live here, work for our airlines, and are submitted to the exact same airport shakedown as a lumberman from Idaho. This would be like having the Wehrmacht immigrate to America and work for our airlines during World War II. Except the Wehrmacht was not so bloodthirsty.
<snip>
We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity. We weren't punctilious about locating and punishing only Hitler and his top officers. We carpet-bombed German cities; we killed civilians. That's war. And this is war.
[rhinoceros]
I would think one should be happy to run to the "opposite direction" from this article, whatever that might be. Except if it is meant as material for a psychological study. Anyway, what is the opposite direction from hysteria? Or the opposite direction from "I don't want to know -- someone is upsetting my life and should disappear." And what would be a "rational direction"?
This is along the lines of a well tread path of illusion: (a) "The enemy is there, and if we kill them the'll be there no more." (b) "Their kind act like that because Muhammed (or Jesus, or Veelzevul, you name it) have told them to act like that, and this has nothing to do with any of us." (c) "We are right to eliminate 'them', because our own rationale, unlike theirs, is justified." Again, if my interpretation is acceptable, what would the opposite direction be? A rational direction?
As an endnote, would it be extreme to take into account the fact that the presence of Americans at some parts of the world is a source of death and distruction?
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