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Tired of listening to people who are loving painting me as a real bad guy.

Posted by: Lark on May 05, 1999 at 13:01:42:

In Reply to: Had enough of thinking? posted by Red Deathy on May 04, 1999 at 17:03:13:

: Mayhap such people consider the war not to be the bestest of all possible solutions.?

Fine, that is easy for you to say have you been driven from your home and lost memebers of your immediate family? Your opinion might be a bit different then.

War is unpopular, that's a good thing, people who argue that a just war is going on are going to unpopular too, which isnt a good thing, it has absolutely nothing to do with rationality, it is to do with the types of things people immediately bring to mind when they hear the word WAR.

It's not so bad here but I've known people who the minute anyone talks about direct action to try and prevent something, war being this on a major scale, they pull out pictures of people in Vietnam or some where with thier inards blown out and that's meant to put a seal on whole debate.

: So, let me get this straight- you don't want to hear a reasoned analysis of how we reached this situation, nor of the potential interests nor motivations involved, nor of the discrepencies between the propaganda and the praxis...how very....liberal of you.

Cheers RD I'm glad to know I'm not a "true" socialist, a "true" Libertarian or a "true" liberal, what would that make me? Ah, yes a big evil militaristic right-winger right? This is all very rational mate.

I give an explanation of how we have got here, EG a dictator is throwing his weight around, and the potential motivations and interests of those involved, EG armed insurrgents are fighting to prevent their ethnic distruction and the ravaging of all they hold dear following the disregarding of the democratic wishes (they held elections) of their population and other democracies wont stand by and let this happen having learned from appeasement in the past.

Not opposing dictatorship not very libertarian of your.

: Politicians logic strikes again:

What?!! Just because this is a popular issue with politicians it's definitely suspect? Some people are obviously paranoid. Why is the logic bad for it's association with politicians?

I think this is a case of "four legs good, two legs bad" dogma.

: 1:the Situation in Kosovo is terrible.
: 2:We must do something.
: 3:Bombing serbia is something.
: 4:tehrefore we must bomb serbia.

And what would the ever so wiser solution be? Behave diplomatically while people get executed? Christ the left bitches when the governments do nothing and accuses them of being without morality, then they do the same when they do do something.

: Point of fact- according to the CIA world-fact book the US does not recognise the Yugoslav federation, only seperate Serbia and Montenegro.... fascinating geo-political stuff.

Yes fascinating if your hot for conspiracies.


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