off topic but i have to say it.

[Dave]

I agree.

Dave.


-----Original Message-----
From: Toby Corkindale <tjcorkin at sa.pracom.com.au>
To: gmecm at diy-efi.org <gmecm at diy-efi.org>
Date: Saturday, September 15, 2001 9:17 PM
Subject: Re: off topic but i have to say it.


>On Fri, 14 Sep 2001, Brian L Massey wrote:
>> On Fri, 14 Sep 2001 10:23:50 -0500 Gary Heuston
>> <gary.heuston at afwa.af.mil> writes:
>> > Keep
>> > in mind you
>> > are under no obligation whatsoever to continue to live in this
>> > "messed up
>> > country" that the government has provided you, if theres another
>> > country you
>> > think is doing a better job then go live there.
>> > I am by no means a "Government can do no wrong" type of person, but
>> > this kind of
>> > crap really gets to me.
>>
>> Gary, I do sympathize with your retort, and appreciate your response, but
>> you must have missed the fact that this individual was posting from
>> Australia, and so most probably isn't a US citizen. (His email was from a
>> .com.au address).
>>
>> BTW, just to be crystal clear, I'm not *at all* making any kind of
>> generalization of Aussies. They like all nations, are composed of
>> individuals with their own personal views of such matters. Actually, on
>> the whole I'm quite fond of australians; they seem to have an enjoyable
>> spunk about them, and I can't help but feel that many of them would
>> deeply sympathize with the US and it's grief and anger, at this time.
>>
>> Brian
>
>
>You are correct, I am Australian.
>
>I am sorry if my previous post sounded like i didn't care about the tragedy
>that happened.. I did not want to give that impression. I was seriously
>stunned and saddened by what went on - It really is terrible. But I am
>scared that, while clouded by dispair and anger, the USA might strike back
>blindly, and cause things to get worse.
>
>What has happened is bad, but it would pale in comparison to the
devastation
>caused by a third world war.
>
>Things aren't as black-and-white as they seem - if you go off and bomb a fe
w
>countries in retaliation, you risk them and their friends striking back.
>Don't forget there are quite a few countries who would love an opportunity
>to hit back at the US, or even just some unrelated country, given the
>opportunity. (Not Australia, of course! We're pretty harmless in the scale
>of things)
>
>WW1 and WW2 started over less than this.
>A lot of people have died in the past week, and they're all (except 18
>terrorists) innocents.
>
>You only need 1 person to have a terrorist. It doesn't matter how much of
>the middle east you bomb, or how many foreign people you kill on their, or
>your, soil, you will still have someone, somewhere, who could become a
>terrorist.
>
>And the more innocent people (on their "side") that are killed, the more
>reason you give someone to become a terrorist.
>
>In the long term, violence only begats more violence.
>We all need to mourn, and then to work out the best thing to do,
rationally.
>
>-Toby
>
>
>
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