Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2001 17:26:02 -0400 From: Technical Information <tech_info@threespace.com> To: FreeBSD Chat <chat@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: helping victims of terror Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20010924170815.0180aee8@threespace.com> In-Reply-To: <20010924101924.A837@lpt.ens.fr> References: <3BAEA43A.DF42C7B@mindspring.com>
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First off, I have yet to find the media source anywhere around the world that reports without any bias, so if you expect to gain credibility/IQ points over Americans for listening to CNN then you're barking up the wrong tree. And I've heard CNN report several times that the U.S. armed bin Laden during the Soviet occupation (attempt) in Afghanistan. Retired General H. Norman Shwarzkopf himself was interviewed and admitted that many of the terrorists in that region may have received training during times when they were allied against the Soviets. Saying that we deserved the Attack on the 11th for that reason is like saying that the rifle instructor deserved to be shot by his student after they got into an argument. Me personally, I would be behind any country in our situation that decided to go after the perpetrators and all who would hide them. Japan, Britain, Germany, Russia--you name it. This has NOTHING to do with past events. You can trace through recent world history like the most enlightened scholar around, but there isn't a context you can give me that make such a crime acceptable. So trying to concoct one seems a waste to me. This country doesn't believe in trying to understand the reason you committed the crime. It punishes you and let's you serve as an example to others who would do the same. And if we think we have the means to punish those who have committed this act, then so be it. And yes, you do seem bitter in this message. --Chip Morton At 04:19 AM 9/24/2001, Rahul Siddharthan wrote: >[ snipped out several paragraphs stating that virtual every modern-day >problem in the Middle East / East Asia can be traced back to the U.S., >with some help from the British ] > >Sorry if I seem bitter. In fact I'm not at all sympathetic with >Islamic terrorism, being from a country which has been suffering from >it for years. But I find this blind unthinking American jingoism and >"the rest of the world doesn't count" attitude totally nauseating, >especially at this time. (Britain, of course, has been a party to >much of this, including the attacks where that Sudanese aspirin plant >was bombed, and the ongoing genocide of the Iraqi people in the name >of targetting Saddam Hussein. But at least the British public, and >the British press, seems much more informed and thinking, and has much >less of that "wave that flag" attitude.) > >- R To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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