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To: harrowup
One man's trash is another's treasure just as your terrorist is somebody else's patriot.
Clearly what you say here is a true statement. Mohammed Atta was Bin Laden's patriot. The audience that roared here are Arafat's, and vice versa. Gerry Adams has his fans.

These are handy bright-line tests. If one considers those involved in terrorism patriots, then one is a blight on the world.

The attempted moral relativism is mind boggling.

327 posted on 12/21/2001 2:56:33 AM PST by Hugh Akston
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To: Hugh Akston
Moral relativism has no hold on my philosophy. Terrorists are thugs. So are drug dealers and the mafia. That doesn't stop network TV and HBO from glamorizing them. Arafat is a thug...and what Sharon did in Lebanon makes him a thug. Begin on the other hand was a patriot to the Jews and a thug to the British. The fact that some people in this region have received the Nobel Peace Prize says more about the Nobel Committee than it does the person. There are no Mother Theresas in the ME.

The point I have been trying to make here, in spite of the kneejerk responses from the ribbon counter jumpers is simple.

Hyping the situation with inflammatory rhetoric and reiteration of senseless lies and boogey men, from both sides is no way to solve the chronic disease. Patience and understanding and listening. Are some folks going to die still. Yes, unfortunately...but in case you haven't noticed they already are.

Are we in the States going to take another hit or two or three before this is over? Yes...but it won't be because the Israelis and Palestinians can't settle a long standing dispute. It will be because we sit very high on the enviable list. We could just as well back the Palestinians on every issue and we would still be a target...from the radicals on both sides.

The radicals on this board seem to think they own the place. They don't as far as I'm concerned. Any jackass that thinks I support Arafat must be brain-dead. I try to support the truth and common sense. The only wild words I like to throw are directed at silly little twits that have an answer for everything as long as it is theirs.

347 posted on 12/21/2001 9:17:29 AM PST by harrowup
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