Author: David Dory
Date: 23:01:11 04/06/03
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On April 06, 2003 at 15:26:36, Mike S. wrote: >On April 06, 2003 at 06:48:16, David Dory wrote: > >>(...) >>Your mind will change ON THE DAY your country suffers a large terrorist attack >>like we did on Sept. 11, 2001. > >>You haven't been attacked (yet), > >That's the point IMO. WTC is down, but Eiffel tower is still standing. I'm >afraid some people in Europe can only learn the hard way. They don't understand >the nature of evil anymore (although, learning the lessons of history would >require to understand that). Exactly. It's the bane of being human - we each have to learn for ourselves, and sometimes it has to be learned "the hard way". >June 1944, let's just sit and wait... we're so peaceful. Well, perhaps December 6, 1941! :) We were at war LONG before D-Day. >Btw. while a majority of Europe's people seemingly are against that war, you >can >be confident that a qualified part of the people supports the efforts to disarm >Iraq and change it's government (quickly)... although, I have my doubts that a >"big war" of that dimension is the best or only way to achieve that. It would have been oh so good if an internal coup would have gotten rid of Saddam, but so many times you just swap one bad dictator for another. In this case, Saddam was too good and too strong for anyone to kick him out, anyway, and UN sanctions were just a hardship on the Iraqi people - and a joke to Saddam. > >But OTOH I'm quite sure that just inspections and the UN sanctions would never >succeed. Now let's not be hasty! Just give them 40 teams and 200 years, and I'm sure they'd find SOMETHING! :) > >To be fair, I must admit that I'm quite happy that my country does not >participate: I'd have to fear that it may become a terrorist's target. But if >that's a reason *not* to support something, I say so and don't search for other >imaginary arguments. Moving to Switzerland does start to sound attractive, but seriously, we're in a "bring it on" mode over here. All terrorists can take a ticket for faster service to hell, and the more they attack us, the more united we have become. The real pity is that because the terrorists are perceived as muslims and arabs, and because of the huge drain on resources, other large problems that should be handled (like the Palestinian - Israeli problem), get put off, further and further. Dave
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