>I saw a lot of those attitudes among South Africans I met, and that
>impressed me quite a bit. I also heard stories of the survivors of the Nazi
>concentration camps expressing similar attitudes. It dawned on me that
>people who really suffered usually want to forget rather than to fan their
>hatred and their desire for a revenge, let alone indiscriminate blowback.
>The latter is usually the domain of middle class "identity politics" fucks
>who use the suffering of others a justification of their victimization
>phobia and an excuse for their out-group aggression inspired by that phobia.
>
>That is why I have no problems with these guys being hunted down and killed
>by any means necessary - just like President Clinton said:
>
>"'We're not inflicting pain on these fuckers,' Clinton said, softly at
>first. 'When people kill us, they should be killed in greater numbers.'
>Then, with his face reddening, his voice rising, and his fist pounding his
>thigh, he leaned into Tony [Lake], as if it was his fault. 'I believe in
>killing people who try to hurt you. And I can't believe we're being pushed
>around by these two-bit pricks.'" -- George Stephanopoulos writing about the
>Somalia crisis in "All Too Human," page 214.
So why isn't Clinton's reaction also subject to your critique of macho vengefulness?
Doug