Klarinet Archive - Posting 000427.txt from 2001/09

From: "Mark Charette" <charette@-----.org>
Subj: Re: [kl] Barbarian Terrorists
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 17:57:04 -0400

From: "Gene Nibbelin" <gnibbelin@-----.com>

> Mark -
>
> Not vengeance; strategic retaliation to remove future threats.

Not "twice the number of these barbarians as the casualties that they have
inflicted on us." as you wrote. No, I couldn't condone this kind of
vengence.

> Do you mean that you wouldn't have supported the war declaration on
December
> 8, 1941 because we only suffered 2,400 deaths and half or more of our
> Pacific Fleet? I doubt if you would have.

That has nothing to do with what you said.

> And, this barbaric attack is even worse than Pearl Harbor which was aimed
at
> our Armed Forces. This attack was against unarmed, innocent civilians.
> Only barbaric maniacs do this.
>
> These barbarians wherever they are are a cancer on the world and must be
> removed by whatever means required.

Including killing innocent people? If a terrorist group surrounds themselves
with hundreds if not thousands of hostages, will you condone killing all of
the hostages to get the few terrorists? A nation at war with another nation
is one thing and people working on the war effort become targets, there's no
denying that. A nation at war with a relatively few numbers of people is
something totally different and much more difficult to deal with.

Do I hope the terrorists, whoever they may be, get caught and punished - you
bet. At any cost? - no.

mark C.

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