Intelligence, Iraq, and Terrorism

[John Chambers]

MODERATOR'S Note (Mike Dravis): Additional contributions to this thread
should substantially address intelligence topics.

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>Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2004 05:33:01 -0800
>To: intelforum at his.com
>From: John Young <jya at pipeline.com>
>Subject: Re: Intelligence, Iraq, and Terrorism
>
>John Bugler writes:
>
>>   Anyone who goes around blowing up innocent civilians is a terrorist and as
>>   such should be hunted down and when apprehended be given benefit of clergy
>>   and hung.
>
>The problem with this is that governmental armies have killed innocents
>ever since they were invented...

[snip]

>To argue otherwise is to engage in exculpatory sophistry...

	We have descended into sophistry and rhetoric on both sides.
	The arguments being put forward are either naive, stale,
	or sloppy. A bit more time off hobby horses and and a bit more
	research on the ethics of violence would do more good for all sides
	than recycling arguments that had lost their freshness when I was
	an undegraduate in 1973.



Alec Chambers

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