Thought Experiment

[lweiger at umich.edu]

I should of made myself clear (perhaps I should've prefaced "Buddhists" 
with "some" and noted that the Dalai Lama condemned the attack): I have no 
bone to pick with the Palestinian leadership; in fact, their statements 
have been morally exemplary.  The US left would be wise to emulate.

-- Luke

--On Wednesday, September 12, 2001 1:02 PM -0400 Gary Ashwill 
<gna at duke.edu> wrote:


> on 9/12/01 12:34 PM, lweiger at umich.edu at lweiger at umich.edu wrote:
>
> > Would anyone sympathize with the Buddhists in Tibet if they celebrated
> > the slaughter of 10,000+ Chinese civilians?
>
> OK, this is getting out of hand.  Who said "the Palestinians" are
> celebrating the deaths of thousands of civilians?  Nathan was right to
> post Palestinian condemnations of the attacks.  We should also note that
> these are not what's getting aired--instead we get endless replays of
> those 10 or so Palestinians, including children, supposedly celebrating.
> (Haven't seen much coverage today, so it's possible that's changed.)
> Lord knows what they were really doing, or what they were told had
> happened, so I wouldn't trust it just because U.S. media tells us it's so.
>
> Gary Ashwill