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echo: barktopus
to: Geo.
from: Robert Comer
date: 2004-06-12 01:56:00
subject: Re: Authority to set aside laws?

From: "Robert Comer" 

> Once you are forced into the situation you have to think differently than
you
> do now.

I don't think that's going to happen...

> The right thing to do is to stop killing people. Once the killing starts
then
> the right thing to do is whatever it takes to end the killing. All the
rules we
> have to make war more acceptable are counterproductive because well ...
because
> they make war more acceptable.

I'm not sure I agree, but I understand where you're coming from.

> That's one of the biggest problems we have right now, we weren't afraid to
go
> to war in Iraq. When you don't fear war then it becomes a solution for
problems
> where you haven't exhausted all other possible solutions yet.

That, I agree, is what is happening...

- Bob Comer



"Geo."  wrote in message
news:40ca6193$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> "Robert Comer"  wrote in message
> news:40ca4eb2$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>
> > I can't think like that, it's not in me.
>
> Once you are forced into the situation you have to think differently than
you
> do now.
>
> > Because it's the right thing to do.
>
> The right thing to do is to stop killing people. Once the killing starts
then
> the right thing to do is whatever it takes to end the killing. All the
rules we
> have to make war more acceptable are counterproductive because well ...
because
> they make war more acceptable.
>
> That's one of the biggest problems we have right now, we weren't afraid to
go
> to war in Iraq. When you don't fear war then it becomes a solution for
problems
> where you haven't exhausted all other possible solutions yet.
>
> Geo.
>
>

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