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. I only care that they stop, and that they not be rewarded for the
attack. Trying to "understand their grievances", as the cowardly left would
have us do, is rewarding them for their behavior, and that I cannot
countenance.

Snyder's essay applies as much to us as a nation as it does to individuals.
The left would turn us into not only a nation of individual cowards, but a
cowardly nation, as well.

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