From: Spudboy100@aol.com
Date: Sun Jul 07 2002 - 14:10:55 MDT
-xx- Damien X- Opined:
<<Anyway, it'd be easy to argue that we weren't attacked because of our
openness
and niceness, but because of our non-hippie behaviors. Or support for such
in Israel. We had this argument back in September, so I won't participate in
a recapitulation (plus I'm about to leave the Land of Broadband). But the
hippies could say that if the US supported peace, love and justice more
genuinely we wouldn't have been attacked. Or if we had, we wouldn't have had
half the world speculating on how we brought it upon ourselves.
> Its the sustainability issue. Can hippy-dippyism work?
Strongly pacifist hippyism, probably not. That's not the only variety
though.
-xx- Damien X-) >>
Please note that Al Qeida and brother organizations attack anti-Israel,
anti-Jewish nations, such as France, for other reasons. In fact, there is a
Jewish rightwing org that suggests that Americans will become more
anti-semitic as the war on terrorism proceeds. Similarly, when the US attacks
Iraq, Hezbollah will slay thousands of Israelis with medium range missles
supplied by Iran and delivered by Syria. All this for Washington's belated
pursuit of Saddam. So this is a knife that cuts both ways.
<<But the hippies could say that if the US supported peace, love and justice
more
genuinely we wouldn't have been attacked. Or if we had, we wouldn't have had
half the world speculating on how we brought it upon ourselves. >>
Because such behavior is utterly unworkable. Think of the Goddess of
Democracy being crumbled by a Chinese T-64 Tank in 1989. As the saying goes,
nice guys don't win ballgames.
<<Strongly pacifist hippyism, probably not. That's not the only variety
though.
-xx- Damien X-)
It better be the variety that looks and acts a lot tougher then Wavy Gravy
did or does
Peace, Love, and megaton yields man!
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