[lit-ideas] Re: Max Boot
- From: joerg benesch <jgruel@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2007 11:58:20 +0100
Eric Yost schrieb:
(...) I am not, for example, advocating the formation of
extragovernmental societies that target random civilians for sudden
death. That you see al-Qaeda and counterterrorism as "mirror images"
is surprising to me, sort of like someone who confuses a flu with a
flu shot, or a poison with its antidote.
(...)
So it takes only a government issuing licences to turn bloodthirsty
thugs into respectable officers, atrocities into acts of humanity? You
like uniforms, don't you? Your special friend Mr. Achmadinedshad might
be pleased to hear you talk that way. Your country's Secret Services are
the most extended and most reckless terrorist networks on the planet,
their exposed and proven crimes against humanity and international law
alone make their foster-childs al-Qaeda and the like look like a choir
of acolytes.
I wonder why so many US-Americans follow that primitive "good guys
vs.bad guys" scheme; maybe that in order to expropriate the indigenous
peoples, those "savages" had to be the "bad guys", and if they reacted
to what they perceived as injustice, well, they had no government to
give them the right to do that, so that's why they had to be extirpated,
of course, which pattern grew into the standard procedure in dealing
with, er, obstacles.
It is like Andreas says: "The monster lives in the hearts of people who
turn away from law and civilized society and rush into the darkness."
The current war is rapidly changing habits to the worse. Many of my
friends and accquaintances from study times were from Mesopotamia, they
lived in Negev, Nasryah, Bagdad, places targeted by your thugs. I can't
help feeling anger and embitterment, particularly when I hear you talk
about it in that almost identical Nazi jargon. This should be a place
for culture and humanity, nor for war propaganda, hybris and cruel
arrogance.
joerg,
from Suebia
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