From: Erin N. (enoonan@kent.edu)
Date: Mon Dec 15 2003 - 22:29:24 GMT
>===== Original Message From moq_discuss@moq.org =====
>Hi Platt,
>
>>> 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.
>
>Platt said:
>> 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.
>
>Steve:
>Since DMB generally only posts on weekends, I'll come to his defense. I
>have never heard DMB say anything good about Mao, Stalin, Hitler, or Saddam.
>I guess it is not surprising that those who criticize the "with us or
>against us" rhetoric would be lumped in with those "against us." On the
>other hand, it *is* surprising to see this behavior in a philosophy
>discussion group.
>
>Regards,
>Steve
>
Yes, that is irritating that if you were against this war that you are
potrayed as pro-Saddam and anti-freedom. It seems one step above the cooties
argument.
But thank goodness there are no insults.
Erin
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