From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos
From Address: not@chance.dude
Subject: Re: My biggest problem with Star Trek (2009)
Quadibloc wrote:
> On Jan 5, 10:25 am, Led4Aces wrote:
>
>> Right wing nut Tim McVeigh referred to the dead children of Oklahoma
>> City as collateral damage too. So according to your sad little mind,
>> in order to defeat the 'true enemies', any amount of civilian dead can
>> be justified as collateral damage.
>
> If someone is trying to kill me, I must stop him in order to live.
>
> If he puts innocent people in the way, so that they will die as a
> result of the force necessary to stop him, he is the one to blame for
> their deaths.
>
> Preferring the innocent people who are not under the control of an
> aggressor to those that are is a rational choice, so that those who
> live in freedom and sanity can continue.
>
> John Savard
If there were some practical way to separate the innocent from those who
are the evil behind the war, I'd be all for that - no matter the
expense, but there just isn't.
Make no mistake; despite being a veteran, and being married to an active
duty military man, I absolutely despise war. I think it's a pointless,
brutal, total waste of lives, but as you've said, when you're being
attacked by an enemy who is determined to destroy you, you have to fight
back.
Having said that, I think the Iraq war was a huge, bloody mistake, and
never should have happened.
However, I think the Afghan war *was* necessary at first, but horribly
mismanaged. Now, Al-Qeada (sp?) has networked out to other countries -
it's a quagmire, and more innocents will be senselessly lost.
Natalie
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