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- From: Robert Weeks <robert AT designhammer.com>
- To: InterNetWorkers <internetworkers AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
- Subject: Re: collapse
- Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2001 10:46:37 -0400
Like I stated earlier, I do not have the answers but I don't think Tom's
answer or approaching the problem from a position of guilt is viable either.
Robert
On 9/14/01 10:46 AM, "Rachel Cox" <rachel AT hesketh.com> wrote:
> At 08:55 AM 9/14/2001 -0400, Robert Weeks wrote:
>> I'm not going to debate this last email point by point, but I do think you
>> may be misguided in your reasoning. I think that two articles in today's NY
>> Times will show that the enemy is not poor and downtrodden as you would
>> like
>> to believe but a well funded group who hate Americans for misguided
>> religious reasons:
>
> But if I understand Thomas' email, that's really the least of
> his points. I think his concerns have less to do with whether
> the terrorists themselves are actually poor, and more to do
> with the conditions in the countries some people are interested
> in going to war against. Because the thing is, there's no
> Terroristland where all the terrorists live under a Terrorist
> Party government duly elected by all the terrorists living in
> Terroristland. How do we "go to war" against something so
> decentralized without becoming worse than the terrorists we're
> trying to fight? Imagine if China, for instance, found out that
> terrorists who'd blown up buildings in China were hiding out
> in Dallas, so they sent their military over and bombed Dallas
> to take out the terrorists hiding there. How do you think our
> people would react? Do you think China would be right to attack
> America and kill thousands of innocents because there were anti-
> China terrorists hiding here? even if our government had refused
> to send them back to China? Is that how this is supposed to work?
>
> Regards -
> Rachel
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Re: collapse
, (continued)
- Re: collapse, Thomas Beckett, 09/13/2001
- Re: collapse, David Minton, 09/13/2001
- Re: collapse, Thomas Beckett, 09/14/2001
- Re: collapse, David Minton, 09/14/2001
- Re: collapse, Thomas Beckett, 09/14/2001
- Re: collapse, Thomas Beckett, 09/14/2001
- Re: collapse, Christian Stalberg, 09/14/2001
- Re: collapse, Michael Hayes, 09/14/2001
- Re: collapse, Robert Weeks, 09/14/2001
- Re: collapse, Rachel Cox, 09/14/2001
- Re: collapse, Robert Weeks, 09/14/2001
- Re: collapse, Lynn, 09/15/2001
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