[ExI] riots again

Mike Dougherty msd001 at gmail.com
Sat Oct 6 18:25:26 UTC 2012


On Sat, Oct 6, 2012 at 10:32 AM, John Clark <johnkclark at gmail.com> wrote:
> I am delighted that you think the USA should have done something in response
> to 911, but I wonder what exactly you had in mind. Jeff Davis, who has views
> similar to yours regarding Afghanistan, implied that even economic sanctions
> was being too mean to Iraq when it invaded Kuwait in 1990; so would a severe
> tongue lashing to Afghanistan after 911 have been OK, or would that still be
> too mean by causing needless emotional trauma to the poor leaders of the
> Taliban and Al-Qaeda?

You keep rope in the trunk of your car just in case you find yourself
at a lynch mob in need of direction, don't you?

That's not a judgement, it's just a hypothesis.

>>  > I am getting really annoyed
> Oh no, I'm causing more emotional trauma! I am devastated that Fred C
> Moultin is getting really annoyed just as I was devastated that Jeff Davis
> is pissed off at me. I'm doubly cursed and my grief knows no bounds.

You crack me up.



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