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

[David Cantrell]

Full SCSI <fernande at internet1.net> wrote to rescue:
> Joshua Boyd 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

Last time I looked, justice required a judge and a jury.  Perhaps I missed
the change to the US constitution which did away with that and instead says
that justice can be served by some pimply-faced youth pressing a button
hundreds of miles away to release a weapon which might just about be able
to hit a barn door on a good day, or by some not-quite-so-pimply youth
flying with impunity thousands of feet above his medieval target.

>                                                                 and to 
> protect our country from further attacks from terrorists?

How, pray, does bombing people who have nothing worth bombing do that?
If I had a big enough grievance against the US, it sure as hell wouldn't
stop me.

>                                                            The attack on 
> the WTC clearly demonstrates that the Al quida (spelling) group isn't 
> interested in being peaceful.

Or alternatively, it illustrates that they believe the US is not interested
in peacefully settling its differences with them.

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