[lit-ideas] Re: Israel's Invasion Pretext UnderFire

  • From: "John McCreery" <john.mccreery@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2006 02:28:55 +0900

I'd wager on a Wager.

John

On 7/28/06, John Wager <john.wager1@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Mike Geary wrote:

> Israel has never failed to disappoint me when it comes to dealing with
> her neighbors.  Her leaders cannot think outside brute military
> responses and her neighbors are hopeless fools who would rather cut
> off their own throats and those of their children than work together
> towards a mutual peace. Hopefully, some Gandhi will emerge to lead
> both sides to peace.  In the meantime the blood continues to flow and
> I curse them both.


This actually sounds quite a bit like Lit-Ideas lately. It's the "extremists" who yell at each other, precluding any rational discussions of the middle, and it seems that "being right" is much more important here than finding solutions to problems. Oh, who is the Gandhi of Lit-Ideas????

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