[extropy-chat] Re: Meta: Too far

[Damien Broderick]

At 07:00 PM 6/29/2005 -0400, Joseph wrote:

>I think there is a WORLD of difference between forcing unarmed Communist 
>party officials to dig their own graves for summary execution in 1943, and 
>US Marines firing at Iraqi soldiers who are armed with machine guns, 
>tanks, and RPGs (or terrorists armed with machine guns, suicide 
>bomb-vests, and RPGs). And if any of my European (or any other, for that 
>matter) friends cannot see that distinction, then I mourn for the loss of 
>any sort of substantive communication between us.

The topic was Panama, not Iraq, and the deaths of thousands of civilians on 
a pitiful pretext that Stuart says he knew was bullshit before he left. 
(Note that I am NOT accusing Stuart himself of dishonorable conduct.)

Damien Broderick