[lit-ideas] Re: Don't Panic

  • From: "John McCreery" <john.mccreery@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2007 22:39:07 +0900

What happens then? Fewer total casualties than are incurred by Labor Day
weekend traffic accidents. That's what the examples you cite amount to.

And what's silly about the fact that a combination of containment, military
preparedness, endless, often seemingless worthless negotiations did in fact
avert the mutually assured destruction that was widely expected through most
of the second half of the 20th century? When the enemies were larger? Every
bit as bent on our destruction? Did, in fact, have weapons of mass
destruction?

Think before you spew.

John





On 1/13/07, Eric Yost <eyost1132@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


John: Get real, Eric. We have plenty of evidence of what
happens when boys with toys start talking about vaporizing
terrorists. If, as they are, the terrorists are like Maoist
guerrillas, concealed in a civilian population whose members
are inclined to vendetta, every new example of "collateral
damage" recruits new members to their cause.


Would have responded sooner, but John's original post is on
my laptop. At first I thought it was too flip and silly to
respond to, but I guess his filter is still on.

I suggest John review the thread he's pointing to when
quoting "vaporizing terrorists." If he reads my remarks,
he'll realize I was talking about active terrorists. If he
realizes this, and continues with his position, then I
suppose he would have opposed bombing Zarqawi.

When boys with word processors start talking about "police
action" ... we have plenty of evidence (WTC '93, African
Embassies, The USS Cole, 9/11) what happens then.


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