Re: [metatuning] Re: Bin Laden: Yes, I did it.2

In a message dated 11/12/01 4:14:10 PM Eastern Standard Time,
dante.interport@... writes:

> and what would that difference be? That it's less reprehensible to kill
> Afghani children by "accident" than it is to kill investment bankers by
> design? Anyway, self-hatred is not the problem, hating others is. They hate
> us, we hate them. "but wait" you say, "we only hate them because they hated
> us first and killed our stockbrokers". "But wait", they say, "we only hated
> you because you killed thousands of Iraqi children". "but wait" you say....
> and on and on it goes. This situation is not unique, its the same fucking
> shit thats been going on on this planet since the beginning of recorded
> history, and probably before. This planet has a huge population of
> sleepwalking people of extremely limited intelligence, so its not really so
> surprising what a mess it is.
>
>
>

I never said hate. I do not hate. I don't think the innocent Afghan girl was
hated. I do not share your low regard for the world's population, either. I
hope the bombing stops soon. But I felt that Sadaam Hussein should have been
taken out by Papa Bush. Who knows if things would have been different. For
what I know, we have limited further attacks on the U.S. and in elsewhere do
to more alertness, AND by keeping the terrorists off balance through the
bombings. We cannot foretell the future. But the present was intolerable and
required action. If al-Queda is protected by the vicious and murderous
Taliban (well-documented), they must be removed. I don't want any one else
training on how to take advantage of American openness in Afghanistan any
longer. As for oil...I don't have a car and would rather find new ways for
energy soon, certainly before the usual haunts are depleted (some say before
the next 20 years).

Johnny Reinhard

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> I never said hate. I do not hate.

I didn't mean you personally, it was a rhetorical "you".

>I don't think the innocent
> Afghan girl was
> hated.

No, but the hatred of both sides was the direct cause of her death.

>I do not share your low regard for the world's
> population, either.

Not the whole population, just the pea-brains who still support things like
religions and nationalisms, even after the whole bloody history that follows
in the train of such divisive nonsense.

>But I felt that Sadaam Hussein
> should have been
> taken out by Papa Bush.

There are also plenty of people who wish Sadaam would take out Bush Jr. My
point is: if one (avoiding the easily-misunderstood-in-email rhetorical
"you") is in a discussion of whose violence is right and whose is wrong,
then one is already in trouble.

>As for oil...I don't have a car and would rather find
> new ways for
> energy soon,

Hehe...thats easy for us to say, living in Manhattan where a car is only a
very expensive liability. In most of the country, its a necessity. That
raises the issue of the oil companies and their involvment/interference with
those trying to develop alternative energy sources, but that is another can
of worms...

Dante