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Mindless Revenge Won't Solve Anything (Coward Alert!)
Chicago Suntimes ^
| 09/16/01
| Andrew Greely
Posted on 09/16/2001 2:17:12 PM PDT by KevinDavis
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To: KevinDavis
We must capture a few terrorists, eliminate a couple of networks, improve our intelligence agencies
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Oh, the terribly naive leftists. Thank goodnes they are not currently in charge of our national defense.
To: Chi-townChief
good idea, I just fired off a letter to the editor, heh, heh...
To: Nick Danger
Sure can Nick!
The weenies whined, "Can't we all just get along?" But the general public scourned and shamed them for their cowardly attitude.
Sure enough, the whining soon ceased and most of them joined the ranks of the patriots. Some of them later when they lost close friends or relatives.
Freedom has a price. It is not an entitlement like many current Americans believe.
To: KevinDavis
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The other is Lyndon B. Johnson, who did not stand up to the military and escalated the war in Vietnam."
Whatever happened to "No Land War In Asia", Smart Boy?
P.S.: That generals' wisdom was current at the time of the Vietnam escalation. Way pre-Kosovo.
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posted on
09/16/2001 2:55:18 PM PDT
by
danielmryan
(danryan@undergroundmind.com)
To: Nick Danger
Someone 80 years old or so could probably tell us whether this sort of "let's be reasonable about these 5,000 murders" silliness was circulating in the press in the weeks following the attack on Pearl Harbor. You appreciate the difference between a Soverign State attacking the US and an attack by a band of terrorists. There is no analogy to be made.
In any case, in light of what occured after Pearl Harbor - namely, the internment of thousands of US citizens because of their race -- calls for reason, patience, and wisdom are justified.
To: Sans-Culotte
Isn't this Greely the priest who writes novels?
Now I know why his books SUCK! I tried reading one years ago and pitched it.
To: KevinDavis
What these cowardly morons don't understand is that THIS IS NOT ABOUT REVENGE.
It is about wiping out a proven threat before it wipes us out.
It is about SELF DEFENSE.
We don't have to worry about pissing off the terrorists with our future attacks. They are ALREADY pissed off, and have shown that they will stop at nothing. IF we did nothing now, does he believe that these attacks would stop?
We did not start this. But we HAVE to finish it for our own survival. Of course, maybe this fool feels that it's gauche of us to be so nakedly self-interested that we want to save our own lives and way of life.
He's entitled to his opinion. Just like WE are entitled to defend ourselves -- our God-given right as human beings. If he doesn't like it, tough humus.
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posted on
09/16/2001 2:56:30 PM PDT
by
Maceman
To: PSYCHO-FREEP
The weenies whined, "Can't we all just get along?"
LOL!!! thanks, i needed that...
To: N00dleN0gg1n
We'll have such fun, we'll outshine the Sun, and dance in the dust of Kabul.Nicely put.
To: KevinDavis
Is it my imagination or have we seen more sniping and lefty pantywaists coming out from under there rocks as time goes along? It seems like there have been more "America brought this sh** on themselves" and "America in their quest for blood" stories today than the previous 5 combined.
This is what concerns me, that as this "it's gonna take time" effort goes along, the enemies from within and within the EU will gain momentum. Already Germany and France are equivocating what "standing by their Charter 5 assertion" means. Will this change the mission? Lets hope not.
As for myself, yes, I feel that America has its warts, (abortion, corporate greed, rampant immorality) but it is not alone in its warts, and I don't see anyone using fuel and passenger laden jetliners to ram them into the Brandenburg gate, the Eiffel Tower, the Parthenon, Tokyo and Hong Kong Business Centers or the Kremlin, all of which exist in countries whom share some of our own iniquities.
My position is I do not want revenge. I do not want "justice". Only one goal for any action taken. To prevent this from EVER happening again to any other of my countrymen.
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posted on
09/16/2001 3:06:35 PM PDT
by
L`enn
To: KevinDavis
The President said be patient and I will, because I believe he and his advisors want to get all the right people in this ring of terrorists throughout the entire world and I also want to believe and hope that he is sending the message to all nations stand with us or stand aside because we are coming into your suspected countries like it or not. There is no room for diplomacy here! And this guy Greely can hide under his typewriter until it's all over. GOD BLESS AMERICA!!!
To: KevinDavis
We are long overdue to rid the world of these Barbaric Lunatics,not to do so would be a greater crime than killing them.Thousands of innocent people were slaughtered on tuesday for no better reason than they were American. Would Greely have us do nothing. If allowed to continue they will develop more ways to destroy us. We must hunt them down and make sure the perpetrators of these crimes can never breed anew and raise more lunatics for the cause. I mean every one ,wherever they live, breathe and spawn. Thousands were lost and Hundreds gave their lives as heroes,if we did nothing we wouldn't deserve to live. Greely's approach is just sick!!
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posted on
09/16/2001 3:09:41 PM PDT
by
chatham
To: KevinDavis
Idiots like this would wait for another terrorist attack on us and then if just one of his relatives got so much as an abrasion, he would be screaming that we nuke all of the MidEast.
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posted on
09/16/2001 3:12:06 PM PDT
by
Mark
To: KevinDavis
Mindless Revenge Won't Solve Anything Why of course not..............that's why we are going to wage well thought out just and righteous war.
To: BabylonXXX
You appreciate the difference between a Soverign State attacking the US and an attack by a band of terrorists. There is no analogy to be made. That's not so clear. We are used to thinking of bin Laden as a stateless terrorist. However, since at least August he has been serving as as the commander of the armed forces of Afghanistan, where his brother-in-law is the head of state. He is a cabinet-level official of the government of Afghanistan, essentially its Defense Minister.
- calls for reason, patience, and wisdom are justified.
Indeed, let us pray for reason, patience, and wisdom. We shall need them all in our quest to maim or kill every single one of the subhuman bastards that had anything to do with these 5,000 murders.
To: blake6900
How hateful is that? The point is, going out and nuking Afghanistan won't stop this. Kill Bin Laden and ten more like him pop up? You have to understand how these guys think! It's just common sense-something Freepers seem to be lacking.
To: Everyone
Besides, it seems as if no one here as ever heard the phrase, "Know your enemy." Get inside their heads. Disect them. Learn their motivations, their strengths, their weaknesses, their fears. And EXPLOIT it, dammit! You don't just go off like a crazy loon, kill Bin Laden, and everything is all hunky-dory. This guy is a master manipulator. Know what motivates him, find out his weaknesses, and then you can get him. You have to attack the problem at the roots
Ignorance is our most dangerous foe.
To: Guinastasia
How hateful is that? The point is, going out and nuking Afghanistan won't stop this. Kill Bin Laden and ten more like him pop up? You have to understand how these guys think! It's just common sense-something Freepers seem to be lacking. Actually, it was a tasteless, tongue-in-cheek comment but, frankly, with all due respect, you can blow it out your ass. You've been here all of a couple of months (May 2001) and if you think Freepers lack common sense, I strongly recommend you go elsewhere.
I don't have to "understand how these guys think"...especially if they no longer exist which, by the way, I'm hopeful will not be much longer. You can call that hateful if you like...I call it reality.
At any rate, kindly refrain from wasting my time with any more of your holier-than-thou preaching, OK? I can already tell I'm not interested in anything you have to say...
To: KevinDavis
In other words, no war is justified. Don't the stupid leftists realize that if these folks took over they would go first?
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posted on
09/16/2001 3:58:48 PM PDT
by
rebdov
To: blake6900
Fine then. You'll then have to deal with more like him.
Destroy him, and others will take his place. I would think that would be obvious.
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