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smooth · 06-25-2003, 10:15 AM

Pacifier,

I don't know why you try to debate with people like this. US citizens are myopic--one of the disadvantages of being a baby culture in world affairs.

Look, why else would geep claim that we were "a target before [we] sent any armies anywhere?" We have military personnel around the world; and have had them there for decades.

We use economic structures to impose our ideology on foreign cultures and follow them up with military force, if needed.

We have devastated traditional modes of production and living in accordance with our standards of "progress."

Then, people sit back in their chairs and exclaim how shocked they are that other people "hate" us--as if the entire world is irrational.

Look how much good we have done; yet, look how people irrationally hate us. What does your culture know about the world anyway, Pacifier, it's only been around, what, a few thousand years?

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"MUGER ADDIB, Iraq, June 24 — On a desolate panorama of hardtack desert along the Syrian border here, the United States military has cordoned off part of this village, evicted five families whose houses were bombed six days ago and refused to say what is going on.

Two villagers were killed, a young woman, Hakima Khalil, and her infant daughter, Maha, in an aerial assault that began just after 1 a.m. Thursday.

At dusk today, a convoy of more than 20 military transports arrived with earth-moving equipment and pulled into the circle of Bradley fighting vehicles that guard every approach to this sandy knoll littered with broken masonry and bomb-damaged homes.

"Stop right there," said Specialist Arthur Myers of New Jersey. "If you take a picture, I will break your camera."

--Veil of Secrecy Around Village Hit in U.S. Raid

06-25-2003, 10:15 AM	#31 (permalink)
smooth Junkie Location: Right here	Pacifier, I don't know why you try to debate with people like this. US citizens are myopic--one of the disadvantages of being a baby culture in world affairs. Look, why else would geep claim that we were "a target before [we] sent any armies anywhere?" We have military personnel around the world; and have had them there for decades. We use economic structures to impose our ideology on foreign cultures and follow them up with military force, if needed. We have devastated traditional modes of production and living in accordance with our standards of "progress." Then, people sit back in their chairs and exclaim how shocked they are that other people "hate" us--as if the entire world is irrational. Look how much good we have done; yet, look how people irrationally hate us. What does your culture know about the world anyway, Pacifier, it's only been around, what, a few thousand years? edit: "MUGER ADDIB, Iraq, June 24 — On a desolate panorama of hardtack desert along the Syrian border here, the United States military has cordoned off part of this village, evicted five families whose houses were bombed six days ago and refused to say what is going on. Two villagers were killed, a young woman, Hakima Khalil, and her infant daughter, Maha, in an aerial assault that began just after 1 a.m. Thursday. At dusk today, a convoy of more than 20 military transports arrived with earth-moving equipment and pulled into the circle of Bradley fighting vehicles that guard every approach to this sandy knoll littered with broken masonry and bomb-damaged homes. "Stop right there," said Specialist Arthur Myers of New Jersey. "If you take a picture, I will break your camera." --Veil of Secrecy Around Village Hit in U.S. Raid __________________ "The theory of a free press is that truth will emerge from free discussion, not that it will be presented perfectly and instantly in any one account." -- Walter Lippmann "You measure democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists." -- Abbie Hoffman Last edited by smooth; 06-25-2003 at 10:38 AM..