From Adam Weibling, on Thu, 06 Feb 2003 18:32:09 GMT (in response to: No)
Giles, you don't seem even interested in the truth. Of course you blame us for selling them the weapons or "turning a blind eye". Even though you yourself pointed out that they are already in the public domain. so you know this how? Have a little spy network I don't know about?
And it is not about you can't have weapons of mass destruction and we can, it's about whether or not you beleive that some countries (besides america, I think you have established that in your earlier dialogue) are willing to make war on others simply because they can, and terrorize their own people and others (Iraq). Saddam made that clear when they attacked Kuwait, and by how he has opressed his own people.
Trying to stop a rogue nation such as Iraq from developing/maintaining weapons of mass destruction is not the same as trying to subjugate everyone (as the british empire did) or making everyone beleive your religion.
The differance should be pretty clear. Your reasoning that we should not take on terror because then more terrorists will pop up makes no sense at all. If it strengthens their resolve to kill innocents then it will strengthen our resolve to bring them to thier knees.
The same goes with your reasoning that people from all over the world agree with you and that is why you are right. First of all, not everyone else besides americans agrees with you, there are people on both sides of the issue. Secondly, even if this were true, using other peoples supposed beleifs as an argument for why you are right is weak even for you.
The whole thing about Americans thinking they are better, there may be some truth to that. I would like to think that it is only normal national pride. Don't most people have a little etnocentricity going on? Personally, I like my country (the US) better than any other country. And my responses in it's defense consist of a little more than "we are big" and "because we can".
As for you getting negative responses from only americans, try attacking your supporters country's with the same narrow minded rhetoric and see how much they like your posts then.
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