[geeks] My take

[Mike Dombrowski]

>> Do you *really* think that letting more Americans die in the future 
>> because of a failure of the US to take drastic enough action is not 
an 
>> evil crime?
>
>If you consider that the alternative is to become that which you most
>despise* - that is, to gratuitously slaughter innocents - then it 
seems
>to be the lesser of two evils.  The only way you could possibly 
justify
>it would be to say that Americans are somehow worth more than others.
>
>>             Coming from Britian you may think differently from us 
but 
>> your country did the same thing last time they suffered an attack of 
>> this magnitude. (WW2)
>
>Yes, I know.  And as far as I'm concerned, the people who made those
>decisions are criminals**.  Of course, the situation is radically 
different.
>We were at war.  You are not.  But even so, the destruction of (eg)

We are at war. They were at war. The situation is the same. I wonder 
what you would think if bin Laden did this to London then the Afghanis 
refused to turn him over and your government couldn't find him. "Oh 
well, let him and other terrorists blow up more of my countrymen"? I do 
not want to kill Afghanis just to "even the score." What is your 
opinion on the A-Bombs? Do you think that was wrong because in all 
probability is saved hundreds of thousands of both Japanese and 
American lives? If bombing Afghanistan into the ground would prevent a 
possible future biological attack on England which would kill hundreds 
of thousands what would you think? I usually go through life choosing 
the lesser of two evils, in this case the choice is bomb the Afghanis 
killing a small segment of the civilian population or loose many tens 
of thousands of people to terrorism in the future I choose the option 
which results in the least amount of deaths.

Mike