Re: [PIC] Paris Riots
From Iconoclast <non...@bogusemailaddress.com>
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· 22 Nov 2005 01:13 · View full thread
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Aidan Karley wrote: > In article <J6bgf.1811$nA2...@newssvr22.news.prodigy.net>, Iconoclast > wrote: >> I disagree, I think that's exactly what it is. After all, you have a >> winner and a loser, right? >> > No. > You have a loser nation. You have another loser nation. Then you > have > the bystander nations, who generally lose (rare exception - when a > bystander moves in and rapes one of the main losers AND gains significant > materiel and/ or technology in the process. Whether this is a net win or a > further loss would require the attention of a swarm of moral accountants). > Your trade and business systems are damaged for years or decades to come, > which most people who aren't involved in war profiteering consider to be a > loss. > There are also significant numbers of individual people who lose > their > limbs, their health (I remember a gamekeeper, "Sparrow" by nickname > because he spoke so quietly. He taught me a lot about nature and woodland > care. Chlorine.), their lives, or their loved ones. > There are some politicians who benefit from wars. This is generally > considered a loss. > The winner is the one who gets to sing their own praises in the history books. IE - America won the revolutionary war, therefore George Washington is considered one of our greatest heroes. What if Britian had won? Washington would be considered a scumbag treasonous rebel who got what was coming to him, if anyone even remembered him at all. -- "Patriotism is supporting your country all the time and your government when it deserves it." --Mark Twain
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