[lit-ideas] Re: Ahmadi-Nejad's Letter to Bush
- From: "Lawrence Helm" <lawrencehelm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 11 May 2006 10:22:23 -0700
I don't think you have a very accurate idea of what's at stake. Since you
abhor logic arguments, here are some impassioned words that may appeal to
your understanding:
"For many years to come the most consistent threat to the West will arise
from Islamic extremists. We will not eliminate this millenarian movement in
our lifetimes, but can only tamp it down to a bearable level. The
conditions the Middle East has created for itself will continue to generate
terrorists. We can only hope that the impulse to embrace the new Islamic
death cult doesn't spread exponentially.
"Of course, hope alone is insufficient. We also must act. It is nonsense
to claim that American displays of resolve only create more terrorists. The
terrorists are already in the pipeline. There is no alternative to killing
them unless we wish to establish vast prisons over the gates of which we
write 'Abandon all hope, ye who enter here.'
"It may be correct that we cannot kill our way out of this problem, but we
can make the problem much more manageable by killing the right people. The
terror war against us is a knife fight to the bone. We shall nor relish the
prospect, but we must display an absolute determination to confront and
defeat our enemies wherever we find them. Especially in the face of mass
murderers who believe they're on a 'mission from God,' our resolution cannot
waver. As we Americans continue to expand humanity's frontiers we will have
to fight proponents of blood sacrifice as morally primitive as any examples
we might summon from history.
"In the age of digital wonders we are at war with demons."
Pp 163-4 from New Glory by Ralph Peters
Lawrence
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From: lit-ideas-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:lit-ideas-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Andy Amago
Sent: Thursday, May 11, 2006 10:08 AM
To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Ahmadi-Nejad's Letter to Bush
Lawrence, we've been around this block. It's hard to imagine that a country
with the firepower of the U.S. is worried that another country is going to
add its name to an already long list of countries that have the bomb. If
that's the case, what's the point of this stunningly huge military and
nuclear arsenal?
BTW, what does your logic tell you about how people would have responded to
3.5 million pounds of bombs dropped on them? Would logic tell us the
results would be merely 'progress' three years later? What's the logical
next step, nuclear bombs? What if that doesn't obey the laws of logic
either? Think there's any possibility of that happening?
What's that old saying, do unto others as you would want them to do unto
you? If Eric doesn't feel safe now, wait until we set an example for the
world that it's okay to use nuclear weapons.
----- Original Message -----
From: Lawrence <mailto:lawrencehelm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Helm
To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: 5/11/2006 12:46:51 PM
Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Ahmadi-Nejad's Letter to Bush
I really thought (before I realized who I was reading) that you were going
to say something else, Irene, namely Lost in all of this is that these
people are facing the building of nuclear bombs in their country despite
Iran having signed the non-proliferation treaty. Read the brief excerpt
from the Iran NPT nuclear safeguards compliance report [IAEA]. It will
describe the concern many of us have:
<http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/gazette/2006/05/iran-npt-nuclear-safeguards-comp
liance.php>
http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/gazette/2006/05/iran-npt-nuclear-safeguards-compl
iance.php
Lawrence
-----Original Message-----
From: lit-ideas-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:lit-ideas-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Andy Amago
Sent: Thursday, May 11, 2006 9:21 AM
To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Ahmadi-Nejad's Letter to Bush
Lost in all of this is that these people are facing nuclear bombs being
dropped on their country if not their heads. Somebody remind me what a
peace loving religion Christianity is?
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