Some problems can be solved with vengeance Jim but nothing is without
consequences including the choice not to retaliate. Your cautions are heard
but what makes you think that your hamlet considerations are not occurring?
To leave the usurping King to rule usually results in an oppressed populace
of a Kingdom. If one is willing to take power by amoral means then what
restrains the hand bearing the scepter? There is always suffering when one
must over throw evil. You assume that eyes are not open but is that not
your acorn generalization striving to become a mighty oak? I am much more
concerned that 9/11 has still failed to open some eyes.
Daniel
You should also note that I -didn't- condemn retaliation or violence as acts
in themselves. I was specifically condemning a -mindset- that believes
problems can be solved with vengeance, and especially that since the
problems are solved, vengeance has no negative consequences. We need to
consider the possibility that the consequences of our acts of revenge may be
worse and more far reaching than the initial act that prompted our revenge,
that our real life ending may be more like Hamlet and less like The Lion
King.
Saying all this, though, if you were to ask me what choice we had but
retaliation against the Taliban and Bin Laden, I would say we had no
apparent choice at all. I think we need to go into this with our eyes wide
open, though. I don't think we have been.
Jim
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