From: Samantha Atkins (samantha@objectent.com)
Date: Sun Sep 16 2001 - 19:27:50 MDT
Emlyn O'regan wrote:
> I can see two options for the US at the moment. Either go off to war (with
> somebody???), or don't. If the US goes to war, we are in for dark times
> indeed, because it is a war waged for the sake of vengence, which will be
> answered with equal measure of the self same hatred. It is a war
Wrong. It will be a war to end the threat of such terrorism,
not for simply vengeance. It does not even require any
particular hatred. Just a firm determination to wipeout the
threat.
That may or may not be doable but I am pretty tired it is only
about "vengeance" and that we would be fueled by the same sort
of hate and all the rest of the shallow bs.
>
> Or, the US can go find the guilty parties now, and bring them to justice, by
> the book. Try them, before the eyes of the entire world. Show that the moral
> highground isn't just something used to control the weaker countries, but in
> fact is a standard to which everyone must hold themselves accountable, even
> those few countries that need not. I can only imagine what such an
> impressive action would do to unite the peoples of this world in proceeding
> into what could become humanity's first century of civilisation.
>
There is no international justice sufficient to the task and it
is doubtful that you could get the real powers behind these
events and all those capable of and desirious of similar and
worse atrocities in a peaceable, non-military manner.
> But there is still bloodlust to satisfy, and a question of jingoism
> answerable only in the basest terms. There is nothing I can say to modify
> any of that.
I am tired of the accusation, as I've set. Do a bit deeper
analysis and you will see that the threat of the next level or
two of escalated terrorism would destroy a lot of freedom and
slow down everything a lot, perhaps catastrophically so. That
is a huge sword hanging over the heads of us all. We do need to
do something to deal with this threat. That goes far beyond
simply bloodlust.
- samantha
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