Posted by Smurf, New on this!! [Smurf] on April 06, 1999 at 15:21:46 {JK6FUAMFdM1vMkeTU9QQ1U4ozdDO/w}:
In Reply to: *****Look out Milosivic posted by Smurf on April 06, 1999 at 15:09:09:
Hello Al, I am Smurf
I am new on this. I try once again.
I have some comments on your previous post.
:: have been discussing the Balkan situation for years with military men.::
To find the truth, speak not only with your "brothers in truth".
::This is NATO, over twenty nations, I think. Most of them have elected governments. The U.S. Army is an all volunteer group, also. After the Gulf War they have a thorough grasp of what can happen. I don't especially think that the governments of these 20+ nations are just a pack of fools or dupes.::
I am not sure (the issue is not so clear) but this smells like a "Straw men". Of course they are not a pack of fools, but this might not allow them to do what they are doing, within a moral perspective. Even a bunch of intelligent, hard and ruthless men can do the wrong thing. I don't not think that Hitler was unintelligent, or Mussolini or any other person, which had the ability to reach a high position in the society.
::I agree that before we go around killing people, we had better be d*mn sure of our evidence. People will be killed, we have no choice about that. But we can change the statistics considerably as far as who. Personally, I would take more extreme measures, but fortunately the people in charge are not as much a black and white thinker as I am.::
If we intend to kill someone, or perhaps even a bunch of people, then we should be concerned about hiding evidence (if we are intelligent). Otherwise someone could expose us as killers, without a natural sense for what is right or wrong. Black and white thinking, it sounds very emotional, not so rational. I thought that you where one of these guys on this board which used rational thinking to find the truth and to try to understand the world.
::I wish they would do this more, like in Africa, but the logistics and support are vastly different than in the middle of Europe.::
Do you mean that the poor people in Africa need more bombings from us, or do you think that they are in short of arms? Nuclear war, is it the ultimate answers? Black and white thinking is perhaps what you learned in theocratic school.
/Smurf