From: David Buchanan (DBuchanan@ClassicalRadio.org)
Date: Sun Dec 14 2003 - 23:18:54 GMT
Platt, Jon and all MOQers:
Platt said:
We went there (Iraq) to root out and destroy terrorists--a biological blight
on humanity. Yesterday, we captured one of the worst terrorists in history,
right up there with Mao, Stalin and Hitler. The fight will continue as long
as one terrorist remains. And rightly so.
Jon said:
Iraqi Freedom will go down in the history books as the most moral war in
human history. ... A kind of universal joint has been shifted, creating one
of those rare seismic jolts that history rarely notes more than once a
century or even once a millennium. ... Never in their wildest dreams did the
Founding Fathers, those men who liberated America from a Tyrant, imagine
that one day the children of their Freedom, children of their struggle for
Dynamic Quality, would cross a mighty ocean to free the people of Babylon
from a Tyrant. I think they'd be proud. I know I am.
dmb says:
The apocalyptic grandiosity of your comments reveals an irrational and
mythic view of things, gents. I'm amazed that anyone buys into Bush's
religious "rid the world of evil" rhetoric, let alone grown men who are
interesting in philosophy, the love of wisdom. The most painful thing about
this attitude is that it plays into the hands of Al Qaeda. This is the
approach that will turn the actions of a handfull of fanatics into World War
Four, it changes a crime into a protracted war that has no limits in time or
space. This attitude is self-defeating and only makes the world more
dangerous, especially for Americans. I mean, ridding the world of evil is
exactly what Bin Ladin thinks he's doing. Isn't this the kind of fanaticism
we're supposed to be against? Don't you think the presence of American
troops and tanks in one of the Arab world's major cities acts as a
recruiting poster for the Bin Ladins of the world? The mythical and
emotional appeal is understandable, but I am truly amazed that any serious
person could fall for the ridiculous lies that we're being told.
I don't expect to change the minds of anyone who believes in the purity and
goodness of America as a matter of dogmatic conviction, but there is a very
good article I wish every rational MOQer would read. Its an essay titled
"AMERICAN APOCALYPSE" and is adapted from a book titled "SUPERPOWER
SYNDROME: America's Apocclyptic Confrontation With the World" Check it
out...
http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20031222&c=1&s=lifton
Thanks,
dmb
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