More thoughts about

[Alan McKendree <amck@thenetdr.com>]

Obviously way off topic.  My apologies.  However, worth reading IMO.
Written by a friend of mine who gave permission to distribute it:

>Let's be clear about the nature of those who did this.  They want
>nothing positive for themselves; they want us destroyed.  Issues
>such as whether or not there is a Palestinian state or who oppressed
>whom last Thursday are completely beside the point; the very
>existence of America and what it stands for is a moral affront to
>them that must be wiped off the face of the Earth.  Western movies
>and television they want abolished.  They want you on a prayer rug
>facing Mecca; if you wish to express your thoughts they want you
>muzzled; if you are a blasphemer they want you executed. If you are
>a woman, they want you wearing a veil and enslaved to your husband
>or father. If you are a homosexual, they want you dead. If you value
>your life and happiness they want you subjugated.
>
>They want and fully intend to use violence on us regardless of
>whether or not we resist, and are willing to give up their lives in
>the effort.  Cliches like "violence begets violence" are utterly
>inappropriate. To speak of a "cycle of violence" is to blame the
>victims for resisting the attacks of those who will not rest until
>those victims are destroyed.  It is to demand that the innocent
>sacrifice themselves to the guilty and let the evil win over the
>good. It is to repudiate justice and to stand with injustice. 
>
>There is no moral sophistication in blindly equating initiating
>force with retaliating against it. Nor is there any legitimate moral
>basis for treating as equivalent the targeting of innocent people in
>a terrorist attack, with fighting a war against governments that
>pose a genuine threat. Civilians who live in those countries have an
>obligation either to flee or to revolt; they have no right to expect
>that their governments will be permitted to commit any atrocity and
>remain untouched by hiding behind them.
>
>In the long run, moral cowards wind up the dead victims of those
>they refuse to fight. They will leave the world to those of us who
>are willing to pass moral judgment.

Alan
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