Eric Takabayashi wrote:
> Declan Murphy wrote:
> 
>>Eric Takabayashi wrote:
>>
>>>Millions of people in need are irrelevant, just like Declan
>>
>>How nice.
> 
> No, you are not irrelevant. The way you and perhaps billions of others in
> the world advocate sitting by and watching while millions of people suffer,
> and yes, while the US continues to fuck up the country, is an even greater
> tragedy than the current situation, because it allows it to continue and
> perhaps happen yet again.

Well yes, you're right as always. My failure to convince the US
administration to NOT invade Iraq makes the subsequent invasion all my
fault, and my sitting here worrying about family members in the middle
east when I could instead be urging them to stay there indefinitely is a
tragedy. I'm so ashamed of myself that I think I'll go and grab a
sandwich and a beer in my bar, turn on the BBC, and raise a toast to
unilateralism. Hurrah!




-- 
"Beyond the Euphrates began for us the land of mirage and danger, the
sands where one helplessly sank, and the roads which ended in nothing.
The slightest reversal would have resulted in a jolt to our prestige
giving rise to all kinds of catastrophe; the problem was not only to
conquer but to conquer again and again, perpetually; our forces would be
drained off in the attempt." - Emperor Hadrian AD 117-138