On your homeworld, are "good" and "long" synonyms?
Dan
Bet he's not willing to do that.
What kind of true pacifist just steps back from the conflict?
What part of "You're either with us, or you're with the terrorists" don't you turn the other cheek, limp wristed, jellyfish understand? We had 8 long years of ineffective retaliation against this sort of terrorism, and now it has come home to roost. Face it - your pacifism is DEADLY. Our enemy only understands violence - he doesn't share your nice comfortable value/morality set. Sheesh. There's more of you leftists here today than usual.
He is the enemy.
How can a war be truly just when it involves the daily killing of civilians, when it causes hundreds of thousands of men, women, and children to leave their homes to escape the bombs, when it may not find those who planned the September 11 attacks, and when it will multiply the ranks of people who are angry enough at this country to become terrorists themselves?
WWII involved the daily killing of civlians and caused people to leave their homes. Guess we should have let Hitler and Hirohito win.
Then why hasn't the US annexed Iraq, Somalia, Yugoslavia, N Korea, etc
The United States could have treated the September 11 attack as a horrific criminal act that calls for apprehending the culprits, using every device of intelligence and investigation possible. It could have gone to the United Nations to enlist the aid of other countries in the pursuit and apprehension of the terrorists.
We are
One-third of our military budget would annually provide clean water and sanitation facilities for the billion people in the world who have none.
For how long - we already provide a great deal of foreign aid to countries, and yet their poor continue to suffer
Once again - the US wins WWII and it seems to me that Germany and Japan are making it. Now that we have defeated the Soviet Union, again the defeated is still thriving. Why?
And Truman was right. There weren't any 'civilians' in Hiroshima or Nagasaki. Both were major munitions manufacturing centers and military bases. In Japan, during WWII, every 'citizen' considered themselves a warrior prepared to fight and die for the Empereror. As a nation they were steadfastly ready to die to the last man and woman.
Dresden as well was a munitions manufacturing city and the people who make arms are as much of an asset as the machines and materials. We were at war with the whole of Germany. The only innocents in Dresden might have been some Jews that hadn't been sent to death camps yet.
There are a number of Ghandi quotes that I really like. One that is little known is, to paraphrase "The most horrible act the British ever perpetrated on Indians was to disarm them." Ghandi was cool. He backed and blessed an army that fought a bloody war to success.
There is hardly a point in this long essay that isn't incorrect, misinterpreted, mischaracterized or just plain muddled thinking. I salute the man for serving his country when called! But if his current point of view comes from guilt for having done that duty he is now serving himself and his country poorly indeed.
I am rarely proud of politicians but I'm proud as punch that George W. Bush says "There will be no negotiations." and means it. This 'war' isn't just about "getting the ones who did it". Or rounding up all the ones who are thinking about being terrorists. It is also about sending a message that can't be misunderstood.
The suffering by the innocent children, women and the elderly that will inevitibly result from this assault upon terrorism will be horrible, but will be merely an inconvenience in comparision to what turning the other cheek to terrorists will result in.
The line is drawn in the dirt before the holes in which the terrorist snakes cower. They may live in the darkness they crave, or die. The choice is their's.
I believe the sheep shall one day lie down by the lion, but until the lion has been defanged,de-clawed and developed an appetite for veggies, only the lion will get up. I believe the meek shall inherit the earth, but only after the aggressors are tamed.
Dying is no fun but it is less embarrassing than living under tyranny.
In all, this fellow delivers a Oprahized version of the lefties' narcissistic vision of the world--that America is the center of it, and this American has the cure. The article's aim is to reaffirm anti-Americanism and deflect criticism and responsibility and reexamination of the Arab' world's own faults. Cearly the present crisis is a threat to the left's vision of the world.
As much as Zinn may long for the day when armies massed upon the plains and did battle a la Napoleon or the Romans, prisitnely isolated from the civilian world, it ain't gonna happen. That day is done and gone (and come to think of it, it never really existed, except in tabletop miniature games). So long as modern combatants hide among civilians, civilians will die. An ugly truth is no less a truth for being unattractive and distasteful.
Hmmm. Kind of describes Britian during the bombings by the Luftwaffe doesn't it? I guess NO WAR could be considered justified by this guy.
Many people had already FLED the towns and cities of Afghanistan precisely BECAUSE of the brutality of the Taliban who bombed THEIR way into Kabul after the Russians were defeated. Many people are having to leave now because the Taliban placed military installations and supplies IN RESIDENTIAL AREAS, making those areas targets for bombs.
If my doctor says I have cancer and I will live a long and productive life if I loose no time in having it cut out. The long run, if I don't have the surgery I am going to long and painful death, I'm going to experiance the discomfort of having it it cut out.
Pacificsm is bad medicine.
The "cancer racket" is the cancer of avowed leftists of this broke-dick authors ilk. I don't give two s**ts about his veteren status. I'm a veteren and he can ki$$ my a$$.
Note to Gimlet: Honest liberals (of the Alan Colmes sector) have opinions. Leftists (of the Hillary sector) like this scumbag don't just have opinions. They gear their lives and their talents toward the degradation of our society and the propagation of a dangerous agenda.
If they ever have their way (God forbid) they will be shi*ing upon us all. They don't need to have their intellectual mush bought in to by suckers who think they're just stating and "opinion". They need to be slapped down hard by those of us who know better, or at least should know better.
Get this through your heads as it is a fact of life.