Subject: RE: self reflection/discretion is the better part of valor
ZazieZazie@hetnet.nl
Date: Sat Sep 15 2001 - 09:57:46 GMT
>>The most successful movement I can think of that pointed out and worked for
>>a change to injustice by the U.S. was the non-violent civil rights movement
>>of the 1960's. The images of blacks and other civil rights activists being
>>beaten by police just for asking for the same rights as everyone else proved
>>the justice of their cause and gained support from all over the world.
>>Blowing up buildings and the people inside results in just the opposite.
>>
>>andy
While there may be some thruth to this, Andy, there is the same double standard right there: Blacks and Muslims cannot use force, only rich white westerners can.
On the other hand, I suppose if they had bombed the US troops still in/still occupying Saudi-Arabia and Kuwait,
the troops there would have left already. So the use of force can be effective, it's what they see around them everyday. In a cynical way, they are pupils trying to show the master how well they've learned?
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