From: Dehede011@aol.com
Date: Fri Dec 27 2002 - 09:42:08 MST
In a message dated 12/27/2002 10:16:08 AM Central Standard Time,
jonkc@att.net writes: "Harvey Newstrom" <mail@HarveyNewstrom.com> Wrote:
Before getting rid of the Taliban we supported the Taliban.
John,
If you remember your childhood perhaps you were unlucky enough to have
encountered one or more bullies.
I did so and recall how they so often made the argument that because
their victim (sometimes that was me) was not morally (it was alleged) as pure
as the driven snow the victim was not morally justified in protecting
themselves.
Because we allegedly supported the taliban, Ho Chi Minh, Castro, etc.
at some time in the past we unleashed a chain of evil upon the world that we
are not morally qualified to resist. That argument is logically a non
starter. It didn't fool many people on the school ground and it carries no
weight here, IMHO.
Ron h.
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