[meteorite-list] COMPLETELY OFF TOPIC
From: marsroxx_at_theofficenet.com <marsroxx_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:10:06 2004 Message-ID: <1049989941.3e95933582af2_at_webmail.theofficenet.com> Dear Sterling, Well said. You have my vote for President. Cheers Alan Gayda Quoting "Sterling K. Webb" <kelly_at_bhil.com>: > rochette wrote: > > > SHAME ON YOU!!!!! > > SHAME ON YOU!!!!! > > SHAME ON YOU!!!!! > > > > Pierre > > Dear Pierre, > > Alright, the hunting suggestion was crass (maybe) but shameful? And > clearly, you regard that shame as coming directly from the morality or lack > of it of the U.S. actions in Iraq, like so many Europeans. Perhaps you are > among that 30% of the French populace that wished us defeat just last week. > OK, you've convinced me. > You have completely overwhelmed me with the force of your superior > logic, > and as an American, I feel totally humbled before your demonstration of the > mature sophistication of European civilization. > After all, when I look over the century just past, I think, how can > America complete with Europe's outstanding production of men of such > political moral stature as the eminent Hitler, the marvelous Stalin, the > admirable Mussolini, everybody's favorite: Lenin, not to mention such > delightful minor luminaries as Admiral Hrothy, Generalissimo Franco, > Marshall > Petain, Heinrich Himmler, Goerbels, Quisling, even Le Pen? The list is nigh > endless. > Especially I feel humbled when all America has to offer as practical > political moralists are such paltry figures as Woodrow Wilson, Franklin D. > Roosevelt, Harry Truman, Jack Kennedy, Robert Kennedy, and Martin Luther > King. We are indeed a backward people. Why, we haven't had a genocidal war > in > ever so long, while Europe... Let's see, when was the last openly genocidal > war by a European state? 1999, wasn't it? > Obviously, the United States has committed grievous errors by going > against the will of the United Nations, the superior morality of Europe, and > the wiser heads of such ancient and highly developed nations like la belle > France. > But, like all who recognize the error of their ways, we in the U.S. must > now attempt to correct our past mistakes. > So, as soon as we round up all the now inconveniently free Iraqi > population and hand them back over to the torturers and murderers of the > Ba'ath Party, we will shift our troops to Kosovo where they will drive out > with fire and sword the 2,000,000 Albanian Kosovars we prevented the > extermination of and remove them to the last man, women, and child. > Simultaneously, our Special Forces will rescue Slobodan Milosevich from the > dungeons of the Hague and return him to Belgrade in triumph so he can take > possession of Kosovo. > No, wait, we will have to leave some Kosovars behind for him to > exterminate. (The remainder of the Kosovars we will disembark in the south > of > France; you'll know what to do with them, non?) That should make up for our > precipitous actions in having saved the Kosovars from genocide in the first > place, and it should placate the United Nations who was so opposed to what > we > did there. > Naturally, our troops in Afghanistan will immediately escort the Taliban > back to Kabul where they can return to raising opium, oppressing their > women, > denying education to their children, obliterating Buddhist art, and such > other activites as may please them. Of course, we will rebuild the Al > Quaidah > training camps and construct a new headquarters for Usamah. It's the least > we > can do to make up for our past mistakes. > Thank Heavens, we listened to the United Nations and let millions be > slaughtered in Rwanda as the U.N. wished. See, we don't do everything wrong, > although we failed to encourage the Hutu killers the way that France did. > Forgive us. > Then, we can move on to Somalia, where U.S. Forces will fan out over the > countryside, destroying every scrap of food in the land, so that the lucky > Somalis can go back to starving to death, enforcing retroactively the > judgement of the United Nations there. > When you are a country, like the U.S., that does everything wrong, there > is so much corrective action that is required. > I suppose we will have to go back to Iraq again so we can conquer Kuwait > and hand it over to Iraq. Then on to Panama to restore that nation to a > government of drug-runners. Then, to Genada to hand it over to Cuba. > Will we have to hand all of Eastern Europe back over to Russia? Do you > suppose they'll mind? I guess we'll have reconstitute the Soviet to do that. > Boy, now there's another mistake of ours. > Then, we have to force South Korea into to being ruled by North Korea. > Maybe we could just give North Korea lots of atomic bombs. Would that > suffice? Would that be penance enough? > You know, eventually, as we work our way back through time, undoing our > mistakes, we're going to reach the point where we have to turn you, Pierre, > over to Le Boche! That's if we can find un Boche who will take you... > > On the other hand, it could merely be true that the United States, by > spending almost a half century and expending countless trillions of dollars > and 100,000 American lives in proxy wars won and lost, in order to keep the > Russians off your back and Soviet tanks from cavorting in your vinyards, by > shielding the half of Europe that they hadn't already enslaved, only created > a kind of nursery in which childish minds could grow and run free to inhabit > an illusory fantasyland in which the world is believed to be a kind and safe > place where all disagreements can be negotiated away (with long treaties en > Francais, naturellement), where madmen and tyrants are thought reasonable > men > whose word can be trusted, where the United Nations is a noble institution > (instead of a con game run by diplomats from the 40% or more of the > membership whose governments are not one whit better than Saddam Hussein's, > where Mumar Gaddafi is the head of Human Rights Commission and the [former] > Iraq was scheduled to chair the next World Disarmament Conference), and > where > any inconvenient demonstrations of reality like genocide, enforced > starvation, tyranny, and madness can be blithely dismissed by merely > shutting > your eyes to them until they go away and the corpses stop smelling. > I think that perhaps instead of Europe being old and wise, it is > adolescent and wise ass, like a gaggle of teenagers spoiled rotten by having > been excessively sheltered and pampered and saved from having to deal with > disagreeable reality, until they fall into the delusion that Mummy and > Daddie > are just boorish dolts who know nothing and whose every act is an > embarassment, while they, having formed all their opinions by the process of > turning everything they should know upsidedown, know it all. > > I could waste time by pointing out to you that the United Nations itself > estimates that Iraq causes the deaths of 5,000 to 7,000 of its citizens > every > month by refusing to use the UN Oil For Food program for food. And since the > UN set the date of Iraqi disarmament in its original resolutions as July 6, > 1991, the UN could be considered to have been responsible for 700,000 to > 1,000,000 Iraqi civilian deaths by refusing to take disarmament seriously in > the following 140 months. Or should we have waited through another year of > "inspections" while Saddam destroyed another 60,000 to 80,000 of "his" > civilians? > I could ask you if you noticed that the crowds in Baghdad that burned > and > looted Ba'athist regime structures, ministries, torture sites, secret police > quarters, and so on, attacked only one other building: the UN headquarters > in > Baghdad. I could ask if that hints to you how the Iraqi people regard the > UN? > Could it be that the Iraqis understand the reality of the UN better than the > French? Mais non! > I could... Oh, well, forget it. I suspect this is all wasted. > > OK, List, sorry. I titled this a completely off topic rant, and it was. > Years on the List, my first completely off topic rant, and I hope, my last. > Or maybe each of us could have one free rant every five years or so? Of > course, that might cramp the style of some, and never be needed by other, > calmer souls... > > > Sterling K. Webb > > > > ______________________________________________ > Meteorite-list mailing list > Meteorite-list_at_meteoritecentral.com > http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list > Received on Thu 10 Apr 2003 11:52:21 AM PDT |
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