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Re: [L-OT] Re: OT Goodbye

2001-09-24 by marc lindahl

> From: Hendrik Jan Veenstra <h@...>
> 
> I think you completely miss the point.

No, I saw the underlying agenda for what it clearly was.


> it was _not_ (NOT) their war, but they _choose_ to intervene.


As I said in a previous post - learning the lessions of WW-I and II, that
you can't have a totally isolationist policy, and wait for things to get out
of hand.

> Obviously, you now suddenly can say that anything the US does is a
> war-act (ignoring the simple fact that they mingled in a war not
> their own, out of their own free will).  And so all of a sudden all
> the killing is justified, since it's just "war acts"???

Your "logic" makes every makes every effort to cloud the situation, and not
distinguish between terrorism, war, interventions, police actions, or other
forms of participation.

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