"good that Americans now know what it's like to be vulnerable"

[barbara100 at jps.net]

Seeing as how you brought it up again, David, I'd really like to ask Otto
how he figures "lives in the upcoming winter that would have been definitely
lost" will now be spared somehow by the war.  All the reports I'm hearing
are saying precisely the opposite.  With all due respect, how do you figure?
Barbara



----- Original Message -----
From: David Morris <fqmorris at hotmail.com>
To: <o.sell at telda.net>; <pynchon-l at waste.org>;
<millison at online-journalist.com>
Sent: Saturday, December 22, 2001 3:03 PM
Subject: Re: "good that Americans now know what it's like to be vulnerable"


>
> >From: "Otto" <o.sell at telda.net>
> >I think bombing out the Taliban offers the opportunity to save a lot of
> >lives in the upcoming winter that would have been definitely lost. So I
> >disagree with David that nothing good can come out of 9/11 -- some good
> >already has happened.
>
> At this point in this thread my original comment has been long lost.  I
> never said "blah, blah, blah," so Otto is disagreeing with Doug's straw
man.
>   I only came up with a point about 'Why is it such a bad thing that
> "two-thirds or more of respondents outside the United States said it was
> 'good that Americans now know what it's like to be vulnerable.'"?'  Much
> good has happened since the war has begun, and "sensitive souls" like to
> ignor the music and flying kites, not to mention the return of a soccer
> stadium to amusement other than public execution and dismemberment.  My
> comment was about "what's so bad," not "what good has become of."
>
> >To give an answer to Richard:
> >Did Americans really think that they're invulnerable? I question that. I
> >doubt that it's been "necessary" to remind them of their vulnerability,
> >definitely not the way it has been done. The way it has been put by those
> >"respondents outside" the US is very offending and reminds me of the
> >"rejoicing Palestinians" -- absolutely inappropriate.
> >
> >Otto
> >
> >Doug Millison:
> > > So, "Morris" is saying, nothing good can come from the Sep 11 >
> > > Morris:
> > > The obvious answer is the cause of this new awareness which can in no
> >way be called "good."
> > >
> > > Richard Stock <rstock00 at yahoo.com>
> > > Why is it such a bad thing that "two-thirds or more of respondents
> >outside the United States said it was 'good that Americans now know what
> >it's like to be vulnerable.'"?
> >
>
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