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[Evan Zimmerman <evan.zimmerman AT gmail.com>]

Perhaps you wouldn't, but I don't doubt that there are some who would.
Humans' ability to rationalize/justify horrible behavior in the face
of war is evidenced repeatedly over history, even recently, and even
by Americans.
Perhaps, like some Iraqis have done, they would be condemned, I don't
know, but the fact is, we invaded a country that had a horrible
*leader* and government, and have turned it into a country whose
*entire population* increasingly hates us.

We. F'd. Up. Blaming it on the terrorists whose cause we've so
efficiently fertilized is not a way of dealing with the problem in my
opinion. Saying that now that we've brought them there, it justifies
us going there, is absurd.

Evan

On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 08:15:34 -0400, Tom Boucher <trekkie AT nomorestars.com> 
wrote:
> 
> On Oct 25, 2004, at 9:04 AM, Evan Zimmerman wrote:
> 
> > If a superior military force invades the US, and we who disagree with
> > it are forced to fight in the streets by any means necessary, can we
> > then be accurately labelled terrorists? If our local ministers
> > encourage us to fight, what does that mean, they're power hungry?
> >
> >
> > Evan
> 
> If Canada invaded North Carolina I wouldn't kidnap my neighbor or the
> 'foreign kid' down the street and chop his head off in protest.  I'd
> find a way to hurt the invaders.
> 
> Killing people that lived in my country, or who were here trying to
> help us wouldn't be on my top 10 list of ways to get things done.
> 
>