Re: interview

--- In metatuning@y..., "X. J. Scott" <xjscott@e...> wrote:

/metatuning/topicId_unknown.html#384

>
> Here is the voice of one who speaks from experience:
>
> ------
>
> "So I think what is required right now is for the
> United States not merely to seek out the specific
> perpetrator here, but to go and dismantle the entire
> evil empire of terrorism, because, if we don't, what I
> wrote in 1995, while it didn't come to fruition in
> precisely the way ­ they didn't plant a nuclear bomb in
> the twin towers ­ they used a 350-ton conventional
> bomb.
>
> "But these regimes that are part of this terror network
> are developing now nuclear weapons. If we don't
> dismantle this terror network in time, the regimes and
> the organizations that have absolutely no inhibition in
> destroying the United States and its allies. Then what
> we will see is that one day their mad fantasy will
> bring about not tens of thousands or even 20,000
> victims in the United States, but hundreds of thousands
> or millions.
>
> "They are after our civilization. We must summon the
> forces of civilization and the force and the power to
> act against them now, when we have the power and when
> we still have the time to do so. "
>
> -- Benjamin Netanyahu, 12 Sept. 2001
>
> at:
> http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=24475

Thanks, Jeff, for including this quote, because someone I know was
mentioning it, but I didn't have the exact quote at hand...

Joe

________ ________ ______
Joseph Pehrson

[Jeff Scott wrote:]
>Here is the voice of one who speaks from experience:

>------

>"So I think what is required right now is for the
>United States not merely to seek out the specific
>perpetrator here, but to go and dismantle the entire
>evil empire of terrorism, because, if we don't, what I
>wrote in 1995, while it didn't come to fruition in
>precisely the way - they didn't plant a nuclear bomb in
>the twin towers - they used a 350-ton conventional
>bomb.

What, exactly, does Mr. Netanyahu mean by "dismantl[ing] the entire evil
empire of terrorism," I wonder? What sort of weapons, and how many
dead?

>"But these regimes that are part of this terror network
>are developing now nuclear weapons. If we don't
>dismantle this terror network in time, the regimes and
>the organizations that have absolutely no inhibition in
>destroying the United States and its allies. Then what
>we will see is that one day their mad fantasy will
>bring about not tens of thousands or even 20,000
>victims in the United States, but hundreds of thousands
>or millions.
>
>
>"They are after our civilization. We must summon the
>forces of civilization and the force and the power to
>act against them now, when we have the power and when
>we still have the time to do so. "

>-- Benjamin Netanyahu, 12 Sept. 2001

If the "forces of civilization" start paving over large parts of the
world, slaughtering innocents along with the guilty, because somewhere
inside a bad guy is suspected to be hiding, at what point do they (we)
become the "forces of terror" that they (we) are purporting to fight?
Do you not understand that the people who perpetrated this terrible act
are as passionate as you are that _they_ represent "civilization"? Do
you not recognize how much your rhetoric may sound virtually identical
to their own? Is the goal to be the biggest "rat" in the "rat race"?

Israel and the Palestinians have done a shitty job, on both sides, at
mapping out a future of anything but unending terror and death for their
children. Netanyahu happens to be particularly blind, IMHO, at
understanding anything but "strike firstest with the mostest", and I
consider him to be dangerous and clueless as a world leader.

It is _not_ necessary to think and/or act in this way in order to
pursue those who are guilty of this destruction.

JdL