[lit-ideas] Re: Radical Islam: The Primer

Andreas, you have called me a racist several times. What do you mean by racist? Please define it for me so I know what our terms are.
A question: do you support the troops in Afghanistan and military action against al Qaeda? 

I will have follow-up questions once I get answers to these.

Brian
Birmingham, AL

On Jan 11, 2007, at 11:06 AM, Andreas Ramos wrote:


So instead of engaging (or even reading) a serious article about
militant Islam and presenting an opposing side you chose to attack me
and my supposed motives.
Yes, it's your motives that are the issue. You want to start wars and kill people. 


Andreas, why do you inject race into these discussions?
That's right, Brian. Why bring up racism when all you want to do is kill hundreds of thousands of people who aren't white? "Hell, this ain't racism! We're jes' havin' us a little fun! Right, boys?"
A few days ago, you wrote about thrilling new technologies that would allow the US to carry out zero-casualty wars. Nobody dies.
Oh, wait, you mean "no American dies". Hundreds of thousands non- Americans die, but who cares about non-Americans? They don't count. That's how you get "zero-casualty wars."
"Washington, 2017: Today, US Hyper Forces totally destroyed Bajukistan (pop. 14 million). No one was harmed. Victory parades at 3 p.m."
This isn't racism? What is it, then? Brian, what do you call it when a group of people say they will carry out a war in which nobody dies, and by that, they mean none of their own die, while "others" die. What do you call that? Chauvinism? Racism? What's the right word?

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