From: Pat Fallon (pfallon@ptd.net)
Date: Mon Sep 16 2002 - 19:59:58 MDT
> The US MUST wage war on the militant
>anti-freedom cultures because it has
>NO OTHER CHOICE,
>but to roll over and die.
> ...at least it has no other choice until the
>it scares the piss out of them
> and makes them realize how foolish
>they are to FORCE a war
> that tries to stop the peaceful and
>inevitable international connections
> to information and products.
> The militants have stopped wanting the
>isolation the used to call for
> and have focused on little more than
>murdering freedom-loving
> business-people.
> ...but I will not tolerate a people
>that threaten my utopian vision
> of an extropian future that can
>grant complete independance
>and total freedom to
>EVERYONE that embraces it.
Do you really think we were attacked because [as our President said] we love
freedom?
I don't think so. We weren't attacked by suicidal Moslems because we love
to have cookouts, play badminton, and discuss utopian extropian visions.
We didn't attack Afghanistan because they like to have shiskabobs, discuss
their Muslim utopian visions, and play that game where they ride around on
horses trying to grab some goat. Our President said that Afghanistan was
harboring the people that flew jets into our buildings and killed thousands
of innocent people. We were attacked, and we retaliated.
Libertarians have for years warned that our interventionist foreign policy
breeds enemies world wide. In the past, with 2 wide oceans and friendly
neighbors north and south, we Americans could go about our lives in blissful
ignorance, while, for example, our CIA overthrew the popularly supported
Prime Minister of Iran and helped install and prop up a dictatorial shah for
over 25 years. But eventually that caught up with us. Iranians overthrew the
shah, sacked our embassy, and took US hostages. Anyone seeking to understand
that terrorist incident and avoid future ones would be missing quite a lot
if he didn't consider our intervention in their domestic affairs.
Today the world is different. We are no longer insulated from the hatred our
governments foreign policy generates. The events of 9/11 signify that all
of us, common Americans, are going to be held responsible.
They ask why so many hate the Empire...
Leslie Stahl: "We have heard that a half million children have died (as a
result of sanctions against Iraq). I mean, that is more children than died
in Hiroshima. And, you know, is the price worth it?" Madeleine Albright: "I
think this is a very hard choice, but the price, we think the price is worth
it."
~ Sixty Minutes, May 12, 1996
Terrorism: the initiation of force against innocent civilians to achieve
political goals.
Terrorism is the price of empire.
Pat Fallon
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