On Thursday, November 13, 2003, at 01:56  PM, Jay Maynard wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 01:42:03PM -0700, Fred White wrote:
>> On Thursday, November 13, 2003, at 01:16  PM, Jay Maynard wrote:
>>> Not necessarily the meanest...but I do believe that I have not only a
>>> right, but a duty, to defend mself if attacked.
>> However, that's only half of your responsibility. More importantly,
>> perhaps, is to find out WHY you were chosen as the target. Then, if
>> you
>> can eliminate  the cause, you may never again be targeted.
>
> Huh? What difference does it make? If someone attacke me, and I end the
> attack, either they'll be dumb enough to attack me in the face of that
> - in
> which case nothing would deter them anyway - or else they'll wise up
> and go
> attack soemone else, at worst, or choose another path, at best.
>
> Giving them what they want, however, is not the answer. All it does is
> teach
> them that they can get what they want by committing violence.
>
> This applies to terrorism as well. I don't *care* why they're
> attacking the
> US.

Those folks didn't just say to themselves "Let's go kill someone even
if we have to kill ourselves in the process". They decided to choose us
as a target because they believe, rightly or wrongly, that we have
screwed them and that this is the only course left open to them to
achieve revenge and/or to have us listen to them and their perceived
plight.

If you have any curiosity at all, you might like to know what drove
them to such desperate measures. Or, of course, you can take the
anti-Christian course of just blindly killing all of those bastards and
never learning what drove them to become such bastards. How very
enlightened. How very civilized.

FW

"Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?" - Abraham
Lincoln

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