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June 7th, 2007, search relatedRelated posts :: PHYSICAL PAIN and PHYSICAL PLEASURE :: check out this quote from AH- respect :: Philosophy :: Mystery without mysticism III
> Saddam’s generals each believed the other had been assigned chemical
> weapons, which were intended for his troops if they did not perform. So
> who fabricated the data?
Serious US journals have reported that the British and the American
information services had no evidence that Saddam had any WMD. I think New
York Times has put it like this: US/UK leaders had good intelligence (about
Saddam) but they decided to ignore it and go their own way.
> There are many precendents, like the war against the Barbary Pirates–
> criminal gangs hiding behind the rhetoric of Islam. Afghanistan was
> controlled by a one gang harbouring another gang wanted for casus
> belli. They declared a fatwa/war against the USA and the cavalry showed
> up.
In general, any Muslim clergyman is able to declare fatwa on anything he
thinks it is against the Quran. This does not means that it is the
standpoint of all Muslims or that it is the viewpoint of his government. In
fact, fatwa against US was pursued by some extremist leaders whose Islamic
revolution failed, in Egypt and Algeria. I don’t think that such fatwa
represented the viewpoint of the Taliban government.
> It’s simple and straightforward.
>
> What’s sad is reading the contrived excuses for barbarism. It’s your
> “freedom” to hate the USA, but don’t waste your time trying to
> rationalize it here.
Generally, I don’t waste my time having hate feelings. In this matter, I am
neutral, and my hobby is to count who many goals and penalty points each
side has. Not that I would be a referee of any sort.
> “Time to catch this suspect and extradite him”?
> Just how stupid do you think the readers of this list are?
I don’t deny that the Strauss’ philosophy is a noble thinking, which sought
the solution to rescue US from decay and I don’t deny that Bush’s side of
the story has its own logics and its own chunk of truth, and its own
justification, which makes as much sense as its anti-thesis. These being
said, what the Bush administration did goes against any precedent in
international law and it contradicts the values which made America great.
I would put it like this: “Straussiani boni viri, neoconservativum mala
bestia”. Leo Strauss would have never approved the rehearsal of the Vietnam
failure. His wizard apprentices did precisely what he would have abhorred.
Greetings,
Tudor
