[geeks] Re: [rescue] The war begins....

[Joshua D Boyd]

On Sun, Oct 07, 2001 at 11:32:02PM -0400, Full SCSI wrote:
> >I don't know.  The whole thing feels bad.  Especially the air strikes.

> Why does it feel bad?  Don't you think we should pursue justice, and to 
> protect our country from further attacks from terrorists?  The attack on 
> the WTC clearly demonstrates that the Al quida (spelling) group isn't 
> interested in being peaceful.

Lets see.  First, we have dirt poor people.  Maybe 10% are religious
fanatics.  All of them are literally ruled by who ever displays the most
military strength in their area.  Oh, and the military according to
reports from the british and the soviets are just people who live right
among the civilians and store their armerments among the civilians.  So,
there aren't really any military targets.  At least not ones that can be
taken out by bombs without killing more civilians than militia.

Which brings me to one of my other major problems with war.  Except for
us, most soldiers are there because they were forced to be there, not
because they want to be.  In many places the threats are more than just
jail time, but death.  So, we are killing people who people who really had
no choice to be there.

Anyway, assuming that we killed only soldiers, we would have make them
martyrs most likely.  Just serving to further unite the fanatical 10%, and
perhaps add to their numbers.

I'd suggest that co-opting the government and installing one more friendly
to us might be a good idea, but it is such a forsaken piece of earth that
I'm not sure it is possible to make the place econically support itself.  

I don't know what the answer is.  But the answer being put forth doesn't
seem to me that it would be effective at anything other than making the
polititians look like they acted strongly.  

-- 
Joshua D. Boyd