Re: Ultra 30 noise

From: Greg Menke (gregm-news_at_toadmail.com)
Date: 07/08/03 

Date: 08 Jul 2003 15:51:51 -0400

Dave Uhring <daveuhring@yahoo.com> writes:

> On Tue, 08 Jul 2003 11:02:41 -0400, Greg Menke wrote:
>
> > But we're not talking about Hitler and Stalin here are we?
>
> No, you were dissing aggression in people who would defend liberty not
> only for themselves but for others.

In your mind perhaps. I have no issues at all with aggression in
defence of liberty, BUT, the justification must be there.

> > Deadly
> > force being necessary in one circumstance doesn't make it justified in
> > different one.
>
> And just which "different one" would you prefer? The one in which your
> neighbor is sent to a concentration camp, gulag, gas chamber, or killing
> field, or the one where -you- are sent off?

I'd like to see the justification for us sending our military into
Iraq. So far the immediate or even plausible threat to national
security hasn't shown up. OTOH, there was plenty of justification for
us getting involved in WW2- and in Afganistan.
 
> This also is too much "Ultra 30 noise" and it's time to silence it.

Agreed.

Gregm