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From: "Dominic Fox" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Monday, July 11, 2005 11:59 PM
Subject: Re: Robert Kagan on military power and perception
>Well, I guess I would make a good Dalek.
Only you would know. It never occurred to me.
>I consider "the war on terror" a misnomer, for the reasons I gave
earlier. But if its "premise" is that there is a difference between
regular warfare and the ideological terrorism of the jihadists,
I am not sure there is anything identifiable as "regular warfare" tho I can
imagine Bush saying that
"jihadists? one up on towelheads to me
It's more the them and us structure I deny
sure there is a difference otherwise, the main one that in what you call
regular warfare, we do it to them
if youre in baghdad & a _precision guided weapon_ falls on your house it's
probably much the same as being on that bus in tavistock sq
and some hypocrite in london or washington saying ah the difference is we
dont like doing it makes no difference, makes it worse to me
> which seems commonsensical to me.
it always does, and so the suffering has continued
> But while we can and should stop doing
some of the fouler things we do, we can't actually stop responding, go
back to sleep and pretend the bombs were meant for someone else.
well i dont think i proposed any of that
> We
have many things to be ashamed of; but the terrorist bombs are not our
long-overdue punishment for those things; and we shouldn't let our
desire for punishment overwhelm our instinct for self-preservation.
nor that
so i wont waste breath answering them
all best
L
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