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Subject: Re: [OM] Re: "Americanism," the American way and this list OT
From: "R. Jackson" <jackson.robert.r@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2003 12:11:39 -0800
I wish I could pass on this...but I can't.

If you use the same rationale, then we, as humanitarian people, should be invading and conquering nations all over the world. We should leave Iraq and head to Zimbabwe where we could oust Robert Mugabe, arguably a nastier stong-man than Saddam. Then we'd head out to Chechnya and Armenia and Serbia and Turkey and East Timor and Tibet...and the list goes on and on. If it's comforting to think of this expansionist move and the damage it does to the U.N. as "humanitarian" in nature, then pop open a cold one and sing "Kumbaya," but be sure you reflect on the similar humanitarian efforts that history credits to guys like Hitler, Mao and Stalin. ;-)

-Rob

On Tuesday, March 18, 2003, at 11:56  AM, Tris Schuler wrote:

With re to Iraq and those who cannot bring themselves to bear the thought of imposing our hateful American special-interest will on its current loveable (and loving) regime: shame on anyone not clever enough to see not only the wisdom but the acute necessity of the United States acting as our government now suggests. If you want to know, I pity anyone that dense and I despise anyone so bereft of the need and humanitarian goodwill to help others who suffer greatly (i.e., the greater Iraqi population of various peoples) under indescribably cruel government. Maybe it's arrogant to suppose America could and would do better for them, but if it is it is the arrogance inherent in God's own truth.


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