[extropy-chat] Re: Meta: Too far

[Mike Lorrey]

--- Damien Broderick <thespike at satx.rr.com> wrote:

> 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.)

Except that Stuart is ignoring the fact that Noriega declared war on
the US five days before the invasion, and killed a US officer. It is
hardly 'bullshit'.

Mike Lorrey
Vice-Chair, 2nd District, Libertarian Party of NH
"Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom.
It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves."
                                      -William Pitt (1759-1806) 
Blog: http://intlib.blogspot.com


		
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