Actually, I meant that Eric seemed to be comparing/contrasting everybody in the US with a group of terrorists of a particularly unpleasant kind**. But perhaps by "us" he did mean the US administration. Whichever's right, I agree with Andreas' claim that Eric's saying "just a little bit better than...", which is not what the claim's supposed to be. **terrorists differ Thursday, November 10, 2005, 12:13:15 AM, Andy Amago wrote: >> [Original Message] >> From: Judy Evans <judithevans1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> >> To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> >> Date: 11/9/2005 6:01:34 PM >> Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Willie Pete's Role Reversal >> >> Wednesday, November 9, 2005, 10:26:47 PM, Eric Yost wrote: >> >> >> >> >> EY> And that's without even comparing the >> EY> various claims and counterclaims. Guantanamo versus 9/11; Abu >> EY> Ghraib versus routine beheading of journalists and innocent >> EY> workers, etc. >> >> the US (etc.) are supposed to be better than everybody else, not just >> than groups of known terrorists -- aren't they/we? Is your claim, in >> the end, that terrorists are worse than you in that they have >> committed terrorist acts? (Wow.) >> >> >> AA> That's a good point, if I'm interpreting it correcting. Al Qaeda is not an AA> arm of any government, while it was the U.S. government who attacked an AA> uninvolved country. Likewise it's the U.S. government (CIA, etc.) who does AA> assassinations such as of Diem and others. Splitting the world into us AA> good, you evil is a formula for more and more war. AA> Andy -- Judy Evans, Cardiff, UK mailto:judithevans1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html