But it gives me an idea for a new reality TV show: I to see R.W. Apple Jr. go to the family of each and every soldier killed in Iraq and tell them that because only 96 have died to date, the death of their loved one doesn't matter. The family then can torturing him using methods from either Iraq or the Shah's Iran (the good old Savak--remember them?) Then they have to justify their use of torture. Our own andie nachgeborenen (real identity unknown) gets to judge their reasons. Winners get a weeks vacation to Disneyland, plus a chance to give old R.J. another round of electrical shocks to his nuts. Losers have to take a course in either utilitarian or deontological ethics, depending on which moral theory they munged up.
Right now, I'm very vicious, bitter, and small. I'm going to bed, and maybe I'll be a better person tomorrow. But I doubt it.
Curtiss
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> "But the antiwar forces, who have had to contend from the start with the
> widespread belief that their position is unpatriotic and unsupportive of
> American troops engaged in deadly combat, must now bear the additional
> burden of arguing with success. American losses are relatively small: 96
> dead to date, compared with 200 a day at the height of the Vietnam War. ..."
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