The Logic Off Topic list

At 8:28 PM +0000 9/23/01, Adrian Gill wrote:
>Propaganda? I've no interest in evangelizing for any anti-American
>stance. America is undoubtedly the most open, democratic country
>on the planet. I look forward to the day when the world at large
>enjoys the same freedoms and rights enshrined in its constitution.
>
>But are we not to examine the credentials of those who so forthrightly
>condemn state sponsored terrorism? 'Those who do not remember the past
>are condemned to repeat it' etc., - when is there a time to examine
>history with a view to putting the present in perspective?
>
>Are we not justified in trying to see the context of such horrendous
>violence? Don't we owe it to those poor people who's lives were
>cut short so miserably that we should try and see the root causes
>of such acts, that others should not ever again perish so needlessly?
>

Impressive post.  Thank you for supporting your statements so 
articulately.  Some of them strike me as somewhat slanted but I lack 
the knowledge to refute any of them.
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