Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/09/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Just last week I watch a CNN interview with Rumsfeld and he openly supported the use of American made high tech weapons for summary executions of suspected PLA militants. It made me sick. I am not sure if the Bush administration is interested in peace in the Middle East. Alan Hull wrote: > > I believe that this discussion is the most important discussion this group > has ever engaged in. This is life and death, and ALL means to dissuade the > US and NATO from blindly lashing out with knee-jerk anger should be used. > > Please Please Please, cut through the grief and somehow touch base with > humanity and try to understand that the white hot hatred that drives suicide > bombers will not be cured by a military response. If your anger is so > intense that you are unable to touch this base then use cold hearted logic > and realise that if the US and NATO escalate this event then the next time > the bombers strike it could be nuclear. Solve the root problem, and this > type of terrorism will go away > > I sincerely hope that my contribution to this topic has not lowered the high > standard of debate that has taken place here. I do not have the education > to take this discussion further. I have spent nine years in the British > military during a time when the primary enemy were terrorists from Northern > Ireland, Malaysia, Borneo, Kenya and the Yemen. I look at my four year old > daughter now and shudder with fear for her. > > Quote from the URL below from Jim Muir of the BBC. > The fact is that for more than five decades, in defiance of countless UN > resolutions and of international law, the Palestinians' land has been > occupied and their rights ignored by Israel, with full diplomatic cover and > open-ended financial and military backing from Washington > End of Quote > > http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/middle_east/newsid_1540000/1540364.st > m > > Alan