[Promotum] Regarding attacks

[Edmund A. Hintz]

     Those of you who know me are no doubt clear I don't blindly follow 
general public opinion, so prepare for what may be some unpopular views. 
Think different.

     In no way do I condone the activities of the terrorists. I think the 
most important question that needs to be asked is this: why would a group 
of 50 or more people hate the US so much that they would wish to do this? 
While nuking the hell out of Afganistan might make Joe Sixpack feel 
avenged, the reality here is that if we do not learn our lessons from 
history, we are doomed to repeat it. In that vein, I offer the following 
links. I urge you to read them from an intellectual viewpoint, rather 
than an emotional one. Terrible as this tragedy is, I fear the greater 
tragedy is that we as a nation are not going to learn a damn thing from 
it, and therefore again fall victim to the derivative of our own 
interventionist foreign policy.

http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2001/9/12/163019/268

http://www.antiwar.com/orig/browne2.html

http://service-net.org/ws/theme145.cfm

http://www.michaelmoore.com/2001_0912.html


Victory breeds hatred, for the defeated live in pain. Happily live the 
peaceful, giving up victory and defeat.   3.Buddhism. Dhammapada 201

Wars not make one great. Anger, fear, aggression, the dark side of the 
Force are they. Easily they flow, quick to join you in a fight. If once 
you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny, 
consume you it will...     (Thanks, Amanda)


Peace,

Edmund A. Hintz              **|**     "You may say I'm a dreamer,
Mac Techie, Unix Geek,      *  |  *      But I'm not the only one...
Mac/Unix Consultant        *  /|\  *     I hope someday you'll join us,
<ed@hintz.org>              */ | \*      And the world will live as one.
'78 Westy                    *****      Imagine."
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