At 4:18 PM -0500 10/11/01, denizen@... wrote:
>
>No, to hear the cheerleaders summarize it, faultless innocent USA
My analogy did not include anything like this.
>suffered
>a horrible unprovoked attack by misguided cowards, so we're bombing their
>country because they won't surrender a suspect. What's not to understand?
This is a rather gross over simplification of a gross over
simplification isn't it?
>
>Accepting a distorted, simplified version of the truth, and
>underestimating what we're up against by failing to question and
>investigate is as dangerous to our own proper understanding as it is to
>that of the oppressed underclasses in the Middle East when they believe
>unquestioningly the propaganda spread by bin Laden or the Taliban.
Only what you call a gross over simplification did pretty much cover
the salient points. And while objecting to the simplicity have
failed to point out the inaccuracy.
Yoonchi indignantly asked why the focus had shifted. Ok I did not
answer directly.
You have an important objective that is your focus. Someone places
an large tough obstacle between you and your objective. The immediate
focus naturally becomes the task of overcoming the obstacle.
This is, as they say , "not rocket science".
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Re: [L-OT] Locusts for Dinner
2001-10-12 by Dennis Gunn
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