Saw this post on a Gamefaqs.com board a bit ago...A bit of cheer for those that need it, maybe, and something for anyone that's been bashing the US lately to consider:)
In case the NEVER in capital letters wasn't enough for you, i'll say it again....Any time this sort of mass killing of innocents happens, for any purposes, it's wrong.
Also...Maybe i'm just overly nieve, but i've had it said to me for 20 years now that two wrongs don't make a right. Quit mentioning stuff like Baghdad and others as if it's some kind of justification...Assuming that it's Bin Laden or some other Islamic Fundamentalist group that did this, all they're doing is acting like vengeful kids, without the maturity to talk things out.
Because in the past fifty years, US government policy has killed millions of civilians worldwide, all to keep career politicians in office. Everything that you feel now, shock, revulsion, anger, is the same genuine feeling that has existed for years in Beiruit and Baghdad, in North Korea and Vietnam and Cuba, in every place else that has suffered US bombs and US sanctions.
All I have to say to that is...Oh please. So you're basically claiming that a large portion of US government officals engineer the deaths of innocents to further their own motives?
Gee, even assuming for a moment that your claim's somehow true...Funny how that also sounds like almost every Islamic Fundamentalist i've ever heard about- Religious fanatics, many of whom seem to think terror attacks that kill innocents are the only ways to promote themselves and ensure their happy afterlife.
Because the US parks carrier battle groups on peoples' doorsteps all over the world, threatens civilian populations, then hangs out the signs saying "Make us go away. Just try."
Feel like actually backing yourself up with examples? Like one of the other replies here, remember that we're almost always INVITED to be somewhere.
The US is hated on a deep and personal level by large parts of the world.
Oh? Go look at the list of apologies and promises of support from foreign governments on cnn.com, and say that again. Since when did groupings of Islamic Fundamentalists and other terrorists become a "large part of the world"?
People like you spouting this tired rhetoric once again make me sick...As I watch the news this morning, i'm reminded that there is NEVER any reason to kill thousands of INNOCENT CIVILIANS, simply because our foreign policies don't rub them the right way.
For god sakes, how the hell can you essentially defend the motives of these people, after seeing the people leaping out of the higher floors of the WTC to die in the fall, rather than burning to death?
"...and my opinion of it, like that of Steve Gibson is somewhat low. "
I really have to wonder why I should care in regards to what Steve thinks about BlackICE, when it completely passes all the shields/probes tests on his website, and when it has kept me from experiencing ANY hacking-related problems on my machine( and in Windows 98, for god's sake:P ).
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Saw this post on a Gamefaqs.com board a bit ago...A bit of cheer for those that need it, maybe, and something for anyone that's been bashing the US lately to consider :)
In case the NEVER in capital letters wasn't enough for you, i'll say it again....Any time this sort of mass killing of innocents happens, for any purposes, it's wrong.
Also...Maybe i'm just overly nieve, but i've had it said to me for 20 years now that two wrongs don't make a right. Quit mentioning stuff like Baghdad and others as if it's some kind of justification...Assuming that it's Bin Laden or some other Islamic Fundamentalist group that did this, all they're doing is acting like vengeful kids, without the maturity to talk things out.
Because in the past fifty years, US government policy has killed millions of civilians worldwide, all to keep career politicians in office. Everything that you feel now, shock, revulsion, anger, is the same genuine feeling that has existed for years in Beiruit and Baghdad, in North Korea and Vietnam and Cuba, in every place else that has suffered US bombs and US sanctions.
All I have to say to that is...Oh please. So you're basically claiming that a large portion of US government officals engineer the deaths of innocents to further their own motives?
Gee, even assuming for a moment that your claim's somehow true...Funny how that also sounds like almost every Islamic Fundamentalist i've ever heard about- Religious fanatics, many of whom seem to think terror attacks that kill innocents are the only ways to promote themselves and ensure their happy afterlife.
Because the US parks carrier battle groups on peoples' doorsteps all over the world, threatens civilian populations, then hangs out the signs saying "Make us go away. Just try."
Feel like actually backing yourself up with examples? Like one of the other replies here, remember that we're almost always INVITED to be somewhere.
The US is hated on a deep and personal level by large parts of the world.
Oh? Go look at the list of apologies and promises of support from foreign governments on cnn.com, and say that again. Since when did groupings of Islamic Fundamentalists and other terrorists become a "large part of the world"?
People like you spouting this tired rhetoric once again make me sick...As I watch the news this morning, i'm reminded that there is NEVER any reason to kill thousands of INNOCENT CIVILIANS, simply because our foreign policies don't rub them the right way.
For god sakes, how the hell can you essentially defend the motives of these people, after seeing the people leaping out of the higher floors of the WTC to die in the fall, rather than burning to death?
I really have to wonder why I should care in regards to what Steve thinks about BlackICE, when it completely passes all the shields/probes tests on his website, and when it has kept me from experiencing ANY hacking-related problems on my machine( and in Windows 98, for god's sake :P ).