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A reply to lonebutte, a few months late (thanks to computer damage from a lightning strike). Violence does beget violence. But violence is at times needed to end violence. Was the violence that put down the violence of Nazism and Japanese imperialism therefore wrong? What violence did that beget? The old saying holds true, that all that is needed for evil to triumph is for good people to do nothing. We can sit in a circle chanting and thinking peaceful thoughts, and that won't do a bloody thing to stop violence directed at us.

posted by WriterofLight on January 11, 2005 at 7:34 PM | link to this | reply

Violence begets violence.  That was true 100 years ago, 1,000 years ago, and it's true now.  And terrorism begets terrorism.  If the US is going to act like the world's biggest terrorist, it's going to beget more and more and more and more and more terrorists.  It's really very simple arithmetic.  I can't understand why you cons don't get it yet, because it's happening right before our eyes. 

posted by lonebutte on July 19, 2004 at 1:45 PM | link to this | reply

here's the thing

thiis administration has made so that this war will NEVER end.

Even if an administration took office that would start correcting the bullshit that this administration has thrown out, it would still take decades to right the whole thing.

we've made enemies of or alienated at least half the world.

we pressured, cajoled, strongarmed other countries, mostly small, less than first rank, to join us.

that doesn't make for a strong alliance.

and that other half of the world?  -  composed mostly of China, who has stated they would go to war with us if we thwarted certain of their plans.

posted by Xeno-x on July 13, 2004 at 1:50 PM | link to this | reply

The Answers to Your Questions...
...are laid out in the comments section of your previous post.

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posted by DamonLeigh on July 13, 2004 at 9:14 AM | link to this | reply

wrong again (as you usually are)

an article in a recent Mother Jones details the pressure the Bush Administration (not Bush himself, he's too dumb to take any initiative) put on the CIA to adjust their reports to fit the Administration's desire to go to war, including demotions and such so that any honest reports contrary to what fit the Adminstration's scenario would be squelched.

and now the CIA is being blamed for this and this event is not at all being mentioned.

posted by Xeno-x on July 13, 2004 at 8:43 AM | link to this | reply

hmm

posted by QuailNest on July 13, 2004 at 12:38 AM | link to this | reply