[lit-ideas] Re: The Iran Charade
- From: "Andy Amago" <aamago@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2006 00:03:59 -0500
> [Original Message]
> From: Eric Yost <eyost1132@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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> Date: 1/18/2006 11:53:46 PM
> Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: The Iran Charade
>
> Julie: People in general respond more quickly to
> emotion than reason.
>
>
> You said it.
>
> I wonder if you consider that it works both ways.
> Those who march against wars, are reflexively
> pacifist, etc., are just as easily swayed by
> emotion and emotional manipulation as those who
> think Saddam masterminded 9/11.
>
>
Just an opinion, but I don't think so. People who are pacifist would
support a defensive war. Nobody wants to be occupied. Case in point: the
U.S. was against entering WWII until the Japanese invaded Pearl Harbor and
awakened the sleeping tiger. That's a positive use of emotions, not like
the rabble rousing drumming up support for Iraq.
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