[TheForge] Patriotic rant....

Thu Jun 20 11:23:04 2002

In a message dated Thu, 20 Jun 2002 10:20:50 AM Eastern Daylight Time, [email protected] writes:

> They "deterred" japan effectively....
> 
> A "deterrent" is not a deterrent unless those to be 
> deterred believe it 
> will be used.

Shall we use nuclear weapons against terrorist cells within our own borders?

This country's government and its media are controlled by money and those who have the money are increasingly a tight-knit and very greedy group whose primary aim is to acquire more money/power/control.  The only deterrent for terrorism is to remove the cause.  The widening gap between rich and poor is the cause and that is certainly clear to terrorist leaders even as they use religion to persuade more followers. The suicide bombers are doing no more than someone's suggested response to airline hijackers...they are taking the only effective action available from their perspective.

We like the lifestyle available in our country, but most, I believe, would be willing to moderate it in favor of a more equitable lifestyle worldwide...do you think the Bush dynasty would do the same?  If we are not willing to make concessions with the world resources (Coca-Cola bottlers in India are depleting the local aquifers to ship their product throughout the country.  The locals are of lower castes, so who cares if their wells run dry?), then we either accept what damage terrorists are able to inflict or we set out upon the horrific path of genocide...we would have to be willing to annihilate the Axis of Evil, and we have seen that as we chop off one tentacle from that creature another grows in its place.  Our greed cannot long endure any more than could King George's taxation without representation. 

Why is it so difficult for us to see that the war is between the haves and have-nots?  Why don't we start by demanding that members of our government share OUR interests rather than the interests of men like our Secretary of Defense?  What portion of the World's resources are necessary to sustain Secretary Rumsfeld's $200,000,000+ net worth?

Philip (NOT PHLIP) Whitley