"Blowback"

[David Morris]

>From: "Tiarnan O'Corrain"
>
> > From: David Morris [mailto:fqmorris at hotmail.com]
> > >"The suicidal assassins of September 11, 2001, did not 'attack 
>America,' as our political leaders and the news media like to maintain; 
>they attacked American foreign policy.
> >
> > The distinction being attempted above is a joke.
>
>Compare Albright on the Iraqi children, or the noxious notion of 
>'collateral damage'. Is the US justified in bombing Iraq, with immense cost 
>in human life, to prosecute a war with Saddam Hussein, the dictator of that 
>country?

1.  Are you equating an unprovoked direct massive attack on civilians at the 
WTC with the loss of human life inevitable in the course of a war?

>If anything, since the USA is a democracy (unlike Iraq), it could be 
>argued, cold-bloodedly, that US citizens have far more responsibility for 
>the actions of their leaders than the subjects of the tyrant Saddam. In 
>which case the attack on the World Trade Centre is less seriously criminal 
>than the US's undeclared war on Saddam.

I'm amazed that I'm the only one to react to your outrageous equations 
above.

2.  So, you're saying that since Saddam is a tyrant who invaded Kuwait, our 
war with his country was criminal?  With this reasoning can a war ever be 
justified?

You can't go any further with your argument from here unless you answer 
"yes" to #1 above.  And if you do so answer we have nothing further to talk 
about.

David Morris

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