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On 4 Mar 2005 08:17:43 -0800, wrote:
John H wrote:
Does attempting to provide good news to go along with the bad make one
a war
monger
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No, but discounting all aspects of the tragedy of war and concentrating
only on the rare humanitarian moments or the rebuilding of bombed out
infrastructure does.
Who has discounted the tragedies of war? They are published here on a daily
basis, and the major media talk of *nothing* else.
Rooting, tooting, blood-lusting, and abandoning critical thought in
favor of flag waving patriotic zeal on the eve of war makes one a war
monger.
Discounting or rejecting other solutions and ignoring all evidence
contrary to the trumped up justification for invading another country
makes one a war monger.
Despairing that we have not killed a sufficient number of foreign
persons and calling for the wide spread use of nuclear weapons in a
region (as some in this forum have done) makes one a war monger.
Accepting ridiculous claims as the basis for the invasion of another
country, and then allowing, accepting, endorsing, and applauding the
tactic of shifting the justification between a series of additional
reasons as the former claims are proven untrue makes one a war monger.
When we were kids we were told that Russia was a threat to the US. They
were likely to invade us and try to set up their preferred form of
government here. Now that the US is doing *exactly* that elsewhere in
the world, it is no longer an unthinkable, shameful, immoral action-
it's a heroic
quest? Believing that makes one a war monger.
So if you see yourself described in one or more paragraphs above, shame
on you for war mongering.
Good. Except for a couple facetious comments made by NOYB, there aren't any war
mongers among us.
John H
"All decisions are the result of binary thinking."
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