From: Platt Holden (pholden@sc.rr.com)
Date: Mon Dec 15 2003 - 11:58:27 GMT
Hi DMB, Jon, All
> 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.
I'm amazed that anyone interested in philosophy, especially the MOQ with
its major premise of freedom being the highest good, would come to the
defense of the likes of Mao, Stalin, Hitler and Saddam.
> 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.
Further, I'm amazed that anyone with even a cursory knowledge of history
believes that the world will be safer by appeasing terrorists.
Those who wring their hands about America's "self-righteousness" or
believe that good or bad is "a matter of opinion" should ponder Pirsig's
words as reported by Anthony McWatt:
"All wars are a struggle between good and evil."
"Some concepts of good are absolutely superior to other concepts of good."
Finally, it's amusing (and sad) to see those who oppose the war on
terrorism finding it necessary to stroke their egos by calling those who
support the war "irrational," "fanatic" with intelligence on "a downward
slide." It seems liberals have a genetic predisposition to argue by
insults, probably because even they realize deep down that their beliefs
are objectively and logically insupportable.
Platt
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