----- Original Message ----- From: "tfast" <tfast at yorku.ca>
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Revenge is very much part of the honour discourse, no?
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Imagine the people who flew the planes into the WTC and the Pentagon to have been residents of England in a manner similar to those alleged to have plotted to blow up the seven planes over the Atlantic or in the US. Would the USG have been restoring honor if it had attacked/invaded that country?
The "bring 'em on" response, which can be overintellectualized/overinterpreted in a multitude of ways that have not accomplished much, doesn't seem to have been "rooted" in honor but just tired, stupid machismo. The air is way too thick with the stuff in the US with no Lysol in sight.
Ian