Re: MD Quality and the Nuremberg-Tokyo Tribunals

From: Platt Holden (pholden@sc.rr.com)
Date: Sat Apr 30 2005 - 21:28:50 BST

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    Hi MSH:

    > msh:
    > Maybe. But, after all, LILA is subtitled "An Inquiry Into Morals."
    > And politics is nothing more than human activity attempting to
    > resolve the moral tension between the MOQ's Social and Intellectual
    > levels. So I, for one, see no reason to exclude political
    > discussions from MOQ-D, as long as Quality is being served.

    You got that right.

    platt (previously)
    > To suggest a moral equivalency between the U.S. and Nazi Germany is a
    > intellectual pattern of such low quality as to be off the scale of
    > moronic.
     
    > msh:
    > I'm pointing out an obvious moral hypocrisy, not a moral
    > equivalency, which is a phrase used by people who'd prefer to
    > conceal the hypocrisy.

    What's really hypocrisy is failure to include Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, Castro
    and other communist leaders in your list of "criminals."

    > Also, I am NOT suggesting that former Presidents be hanged: the
    > state has no right to take anyone's life, IMO. My claim is that many
    > German and Japanese political/military leaders were hanged for actions no
    > worse than some committed by other governments, including the USG.

    As if the USG sent millions to the ovens and POW's on death marches. Such
    moral equivalency and deliberate fabrication of history is appalling.
     
    > platt:
    > As for Chomsky, his support of the Holocaust denier and anti-Semite
    > Robert Faurisson is all you need to know about the quality of
    > his historical veracity.
    >
    > msh:
    > Anyone who actually reads NC knows this is nonsense.

    Nonsense? Hardly. See:

    www.wernercohn.com/Chomsky.html.

    And if that doesn't give you pause about Chomsky's historical accuracy,
    check out his support of Mao, Pol Pot and Ho Chi Min and his initial
    denials of their genocides which he later justified as a small price to
    pay to establish communist regimes. Chomsky has been an apologist for
    terrorists from the get go.

    Platt

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