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Originally posted by Silver Cheetah:
I am not a pacifist. I'd like to be, but I just don't have the temprament for it, and it would be a total hypocrisy for me to take up the pacifist banner. Ron, we've had this discussion before, on why I don't think the war is actually going to achieve any of the US's long term ends re eradicating terrorism, and may actually serve, in the long run, to make the situation worse.
On the aiding the freedom fighters front - well, all I can say is, learning from mistakes is a great thing.
Honestly, it would be in America's best interests as well as the rest of the world to have some sort of body with TEETH that would actually be mandated to work for world peace and security, rather than America taking on this global policeman role.
But we've been through all that as well.... let's not go there again, please! (I warn you, I shall just go back and cut and paste my original posts. I'm a gemini, which means I don't like repeating myself... God, we've had *that* discussion as well...... [img]graemlins/hehe.gif[/img] )
I didn't mean you specifically were a pacifist, just pointing out the two ends of the spectrum.
A UN with teeth would be great, we've actually agreed on that before, but unfortunately even they would have to result to violence to achieve certain ends.
I won't cut and paste if you wont...lol! [img]graemlins/thumbsup.gif[/img]
BTW, congratulation me on my 1,000th post! Six or eight weeks ago, I only had 50 after 6 months here [img]smile.gif[/img] What the heck is this avatar of mine suppose to be?