----- Original Message ----- From: "Gautam Mukunda" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Killer Bs Discussion" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2004 9:26 PM Subject: Re: America, land of the Ashcroft-haters
> --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > In a message dated 3/11/2004 6:16:55 PM Eastern > > Standard Time, > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > > > True as far as it goes, but I believe that he > > called > > > _American_ soldiers cowards instead. That was not > > > exactly okay. > > > > > > > > > > a serious charge if true. can you document > > >From memory, he compared the hijackers favorably (in > terms of courage) to people who launch cruise missiles > from thousands of feet. The leftist impulse to defend > him is not one that I understand, or care to. > > Note that I don't really care. There was no > censorship there, and the fact that people keep > claiming that what happened to Maher is a sign of > Ashcroft's fascism is a sign of how pathetically weak > those claims actually are. > > In fact I would argue that cowardly is a fairly > accurate depiction of many of the hijackers. Grabbing > a defenseless stewardess and threatening to cut her > throat unless the pilot gives up control of the > aircraft (what seems to have happened, from what > little we know) does not meet any definition of > courage of which I am aware. Dying is easy. Dying > bravely - that's harder. The hijackers were able to > die, but not, I think, with courage. > Exact quote: "They blow themselves up in order to get at us & we launch 3 million dollar missiles off of giant floating iron islands 2000 miles away, who are the real cowards? " xponent Perspective Retrospective Maru rob _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
