On 09 Dec 2003 14:42:26 GMT ackatyu (Wdtabor) wrote:

In article jQbBb.29221$ZE1.11595@fed1read04, "R. Hubbell"
writes:


Let's just cut to the chase the only reason we are involved in the
middle east is because "the american way of life is not negotiable"*


On our soil? No, it is not. We do not need to impose our way of life on
others,
but we are fully justified in defending attacks on our way of life from
abroad
and in pre-emptively addressing threats to our country.


Well we are certainly imposing our way of life on others both directly and
indirectly. Do you understand what our consumption is doing to this
planet?


Providing gainful employment to millions in third world countries who would
otherwise starve to death along with their children.


I doubt a lot of them would call it gainful employment. More like indentured
servants. Not to mention what those companies do to the environment.





"What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless,
whether the mad destruction is brought under the name of totalitarianism
or the holy name of liberty and democracy?" Mahatma Gandhi



That he cannot see the difference is why I find Gandhi, and other
pacisifists,
contemptible.

The difference he fails to see is the world left to the survivors.

And what world would that be that remains?


So long as we do not allow the monsters to obtain nuclear weapons, the world


Wakeup call, monsters already have nukes. One nations monster is another's
ally.


will do just fine. If, on the other hand, we weaken in our resolve and let
every tin pot dictator to get nukes, either by making their own or buying them
from North Korea, then things could get really messy.

Things already are messy. Most of the "tin pot dictators" that can produce nukes
have been created directly or indirectly by us.


"What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless,
whether the mad destruction is brought under the name of totalitarianism
or the holy name of liberty and democracy?"
Mahatma Gandhi


R. Hubbell


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Wm. Donald (Don) Tabor Jr., DDS
PP-ASEL
Chesapeake, VA - CPK, PVG