From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Sep 14 6:52: 2 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 54BE937B403 for ; Fri, 14 Sep 2001 06:51:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from des@localhost) by flood.ping.uio.no (8.9.3/8.9.3) id PAA30333; Fri, 14 Sep 2001 15:51:51 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from des@ofug.org) X-URL: http://www.ofug.org/~des/ X-Disclaimer: The views expressed in this message do not necessarily coincide with those of any organisation or company with which I am or have been affiliated. To: David Scheidt Cc: Terry Lambert , Milo Hyson , Paul Robinson , Bill Moran , Subject: Re: Helping victims of terror References: From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 14 Sep 2001 15:51:50 +0200 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Lines: 26 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/20.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org David Scheidt writes: > On Fri, 14 Sep 2001, Terry Lambert wrote: > : You realize that that's around the death toll of the entire Vietnam > : war, right? > The American death toll. The Vietnamese toll was much, much higher. This doesn't really matter, since the Vietnam war never took place, as is evident from the following sound bite from a US Senator on CNN two days ago: "Americans have never shrunk from battle, nor have we ever given in, and we will not do so now." It is equally evident that World War II never took place either - in the words of another interviewee: "Something has happened that had never happened before: in one stroke, so many people were killed, all of them innocent" America is in serious need of a lesson in humility and historical perspective, though I concede that this is a horrible way to learn such a lesson, and I would not wish it upon anyone. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message