moose eater
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One of my first bits of learning of terrorism had to do with the US Calvary killing the ghost dancers.
One of my first bits of learning of terrorism had to do with the US Calvary killing the ghost dancers.
How about we call it 'peace with justice', and when the bully is protected from their consequences for their bullying, there can be no justice.If you are aware of your preference for violence and the effects of fighting fire with fire, wouldn't you think it better to just let them fight until no one can fight anymore?
What purpose could peace ever serve in a situation where someone is always going to fight back in kind?
I'm not sure if you understand what I'm saying... violence is not going to breed peace.
If you don't want peace and feel violent rage and don't care about making a bad situation worse then I completely understand.
but also accounts of women killed by Hamas at households and festival; no Israeli forces in sight.Numerous interviews indicate Hamas did not act the same way. Including statements from hostages, especially female hostages, who reported having been treated with respect while captive.
Perhaps the difference (Mustard sees) is your choice to inflict pain vs fighting back to cease the aggression.When the US rocketed the Doctors Without Borders hospital in Kabul, did headlines scream "Terrorists kill doctors and patients!!!"?
When Lt. Calley had his men shoot into the trench and suffered a mere year of house arrest, while the guy(s) who reported about it was ridiculed and harassed, did the papers and news scream, "US terrorists receive slap on wrists, and whistle-blower tormented!!"?
When Tiger Force operated in the Highlands of VN and dismembered living (sometimes elderly) civilians and wagered on how far they could skin a human being before the person died, did the papers read, "US Military terrorists commit heinous acts reminiscent of psychopaths and terrorists!!"?
When we dropped the A-bomb on a largely civilian population in Hiroshima, (the ONLY fucking country to have done so to date, by the way) did the papers read, "Well-funded and equipped terrorists, killers of women and children, annihilate civilian population leaving deformities, birth defects and decay for generations to come!!"?
When we covered a bunch of rural SE Asia with Agent Orange, wiping out rural farmers, and giving their civilians and our service personnel cancers and birth defects, did the papers read, "Well-equipped and well-funded terrorists engage in chemical warfare!!"?
I could probably write another 12 similar questions about incidents where the use of the term 'terrorists' would be quite appropriate. But history is written by the victors and the powerful (not withstanding Howard Zinn and Eldridge Cleaver or the Berrigans), left to libel or slander the losers or the lesser opponents in many cases.
It's programming through loose word play aimed at reinforcing bogus symbolism and status that's more often than not undeserved. 'Mind-fucking' by any other name.
I can't definitively say how you'd react in the scenario that I posted preceding this post. I've personally known 2 successful conscientious objectors from the Vietnam era who were taken into back rooms and slapped around. If they'd as much as balled up a fist in reaction, that would've likely been sufficient proof that they weren't truly COs.
But it was only them being slapped around. I suspect had it included them watching their family or loved ones being smacked around, there'd have been balled fists and more.
I gave up pacifism at age 15 when I got a vein near my left eye broken against a brick wall, doing the right thing. I totally respect most pacifists. I simply don't have their composure or patience for assholes.
Ghandi wrote something to the effect of, (he) preferred violence to cowardice in the name of pacifism. I dug what he was saying.
I've physically intervened for others who were mistreated in numerous circumstances, starting at a surprisingly young age. Sometimes it's our duty. That's how I see it.
And I left no physical collateral damages.
I see your "little baby history" has you confused.Absolutely Russian's Donbass resistance against NATO's terrorism in the fake person of ukraine's nation, the most corrupt place in the world with who do you think benefits from the crime?
For the perpetrators, shouldn't there be some punishment or pain in justice being delivered? Shouldn't the cavalry who shot the ghost dancers be hung? Shouldn't Netanyahu be imprisoned for the rest of his life or executed?Perhaps the difference (Mustard sees) is your choice to inflict pain vs fighting back to cease the aggression.
Ritter's and Hedges' scenarios for a number of things differ.but also accounts of women killed by Hamas at households and festival; no Israeli forces in sight.
Note; many things stated by Ritter will not age well.
For the perpetrators, shouldn't there be some punishment or pain in justice being delivered? Shouldn't the cavalry who shot the ghost dancers be hung? Shouldn't Netanyahu be imprisoned for the rest of his life or executed?
Thank you for that.I believe in punishment and justice but not in pain or suffering.
I think that being in service towards those you've wronged would be punishment and positive.
Hanging people will promote further pain and suffering.
Netanyahu carrying and tending to wounded would serve towards a better end result, in my opinion.
Moose, I completely respect and empathize with your position. I truly do. I've always done so and really look forward to your words!
I am no saint.
I don't think that anyone should change for anyone else but themselves... and also really admire your rage in the same way that I really admire my memory of what I would consider the same in my past thinking (feeling).
I have just applied it with perhaps a lesser success and retired it (I think).
I could totally see you and I in a James Bond movie type situation wherein the scene includes me violently raging and thereby becoming the antithesis of any logos I had formerly professed...
But if we can remember to think as we feel, I believe that violence will not feel as good as knowing that punishment can be positive and punitive.
Fuck fighting fire with fire, in my opinion.
I was thinking of his statements that Hamas would beat Israel because they are fat and out of shape; that Hezbollah would pulverize Israel with rockets and a number of other loud mouth braggadocious blatherings. I'm not pro Israel in this debacle but that guy is moronic.Ritter's and Hedges' scenarios for a number of things differ.
But military and police interventions in hostage incidents have historically often involved calculated forfeiture of hostages, just as they did when they gunned down their own guards at Attica.
Ritter certainly has a 'military mind-set.'I was thinking of his statements that Hamas would beat Israel because they are fat and out of shape; that Hezbollah would pulverize Israel with rockets and a number of other loud mouth braggadocious blatherings. I'm not pro Israel in this debacle but that guy is moronic.
I do know about attempted hostage rescues. My father helped orchestrate Stanleyville.
I see your "little baby history" has you confused.