[lit-ideas] Re: When a civilized society fights a barbarous one
- From: "Andy Amago" <aamago@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2006 09:10:57 -0400
> [Original Message]
> From: Eric Yost <eyost1132@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: 6/26/2006 9:58:52 PM
> Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: When a civilized society fights a barbarous one
>
>
> If you are just talking only about war-fighting, and calling
> the US barbarian, surely you realize that if we were truly
> barbarian, by say Mongol Invasion standards, the wars would
> be over. The Iraqis and all the Afghan resistance would be
> dead, and any survivors would be serving as our slaves.
>
Eric, we killed three million people in Vietnam by carpet bombing them and
napalming them. And I seem to remember fighting a war for the right to
hold slaves inside the U.S. itself. Also, we dropped over 1.5 million
pounds of bombs on Iraq. That's a lot of bombs. If we could subdue them
we would. We simply can't, that's all.
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