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   From: gofig@mac.com   
      
   In article , devil   
    wrote:   
      
   > On Sun, 11 Jan 2004 15:16:48 -0600, Jenn wrote:   
   >   
   > >   
   > > I love the number of nimrods who think that attacking another country   
   > > pre-emptively is just business as usual.  Why if this is our 'right'   
   > > isn't it the right of any other country e.g. China vis a vis Taiwan --   
   > > India vis a vis Pakistan or vice versa etc etc and why isn't the right   
   > > of any of the countries whose governments we have intruded on against us?   
   > >   
   > > aggressive war -- rather than defensive war -- has not been our   
   > > tradition in the past century and this emphasis on preventing war rather   
   > > than pre-emptive war kept us alive through the cold war.  It is a   
   > > dangerous foolish game that these cowardly chickenhawks are playing with   
   > > our country.  And it sets dangerous precedents as well as entirely   
   > > destroying our moral authority to try to prevent war elsewhere.   
   >   
   > Excellent point, well put.   
      
   I don't think that during the history of the cold war, those in control   
   were crazy.  Misguided... ignorant sometimes stupid... but still they   
   valued human live and were concerned, to various degrees, about   
   opinion.   
      
   The butcher and the psychopath in N. Korea are way too unstable to have   
   nukes and a stockpile must be stopped.... the risk only will grow.   
      
   jay   
   Sun Jan 11, 2004   
   mailto:gofig@mac.com   
      
      
      
      
      
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   > Mentioning China in this context is truly frightening.  Especially if one   
   > has sympathy for Taiwan as it is now, i.e. independent.   
   >   
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