Ed Leafe wrote:
> On Jul 31, 2006, at 12:08 PM, stephen.russell .at. adribbers D.OT com wrote:
>
>> It is unfortunate that in our colonial past we acted the same way
>> towards the British, in that we deviated from the standard rules of
>> war, and frustrated a superior army and navy in manpower and assets.
>>
>> So it's OK that we did it and bad that others are doing similar? Kind
>> of like business, where you have to reinvent yourself every so often.
>
> It has nothing to do with any of that. You must first accept the
> notion that US is divinely guided, and that anything we do is Good.
> Same with Israel. We are incapable of doing bad things, since a priori
> everything we do is Good. When we wipe out a population and take their
> land, it is Manifest Destiny, and if you were an Indian, well, sucks to
> be you, but God wanted us to do it. Same thing when we torture people;
> it's not brutal and inhuman, because it's Jesus' hand placing the
> electrodes on their testicles, not ours.
>
> Your thinking is being clouded by these wacky "shades of grey"
> concepts. Things make much more sense when you only think in these
> black-and-white notions.
Hi Ed!
I knew you really understood!
Regards,
Pete
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