Arguments for ground war - forget it

Gordon Fitch gcf at panix.com
Mon Nov 19 04:37:38 PST 2001


Gordon Fitch wrote:
> >Assuming one thought the war was evil, it would be one's
> >moral duty to oppose it _somewhere_, wouldn't it?

Kelley:
> clearly Brad's scenario was a metaphor.

I know what it was -- a little playlet conveying a nasty and unprovoked personal attack. I thought I'd call him on it, but he won't come out and play. Max liked it, but I guess he won't play, either. Maybe I should get down on their level, but I'm doing my best to keep things polite and abstract and I was hoping one of them would answer my polite, abstract question. Instead, I got Brattleboro.


> in Brattleboro, Vt., in the town square--where, daily, you can find someone
> protesting something--protestors shake their fists at the sky, scream and
> cry in mourning as they hold hold up bloodied dolls. they were protesting
> the civilian deaths in Afghanistan.
>
> when she first moved there, my mother used to brag about the town square
> protests as a worthy political tradition. she thought some of them were a
> little "quare" as they say in Appalachia, but all in all this was what
> America was supposed to be about.
>
> right now, she's ranking lefties who engage in the above right down there
> with the people who do the same to women we used to escort to and from
> abortion clinics.

And we know Brattleboro, Vermont is the world -- not only do pacifists harass the bereaved, but they make fools out of themselves in public parks. Therefore all pacifists and anti-war demonstrators are bad. But you still haven't answered the question, either. Maybe it's unanswerable?

-- Gordon



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