In article <20060119145042.E63095@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, xeno says...
>> Well, certainly if you miss Saddam, Uday and Qusay...
>
>It doesn't make any difference whether you miss Saddam or not. You can't
We saved Dresden and Hamburg by burning them. Tokyo and Atlanta too.
>save the village by burning it. Burning the village is just a means to a
>****ed up end with the pretense of saving it. For whom are you saving it
Only if you think Lincoln shouldn't have fought the Civil War.
>for? The people you blithefully kill? Or is it for the people who want to
Actually, that's "blithely", and indeed I blithely sup****t the killing of
people
like Nathan Bedford Forrest, Joachim Peiper, Tsuji Masanobu, Arkan, Uday
and
Qusay. Actually, I should have said, "enthusiastically".
>of this. Who do you think you're kidding? Are you kidding yourself as
>well?
I'm kidding nobody. I say what I mean and mean what I say. Lacking the
blinders of organized religion, I have no need or reason to maintain the
pretense of unilateral pacifism. In fact, I view it mostly with disdain
and
contempt.
Emperor Menelik II was right to destroy an Italian army at Adowa.
Peacefully
protesting it would have been contemptibly foolish.
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Gun control, the theory that 110lb. women should have to fistfight with
210lb.
rapists.


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