Path: ccsf.homeunix.org!ccsf.homeunix.org!news1.wakwak.com!nf1.xephion.ne.jp!onion.ish.org!onodera-news!newsfeed.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!newsfeed01.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!i61-195-247-171.us.catvmics.ne.JP!not-for-mail From: Declan Murphy Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan Subject: Re: Jpn Govt. Pays Out for the Lives of Its Citizens - Was: I'vefinally figured this puppy out Date: Wed, 03 Dec 2003 21:46:53 +0900 Lines: 34 Message-ID: <3FCDDB3D.2060000@hotmail.com> References: <3FC625A5.7040707@yahoo.komm> <3FCB656E.1665FBDA@yahoo.co.jp> <3FCC87B7.12EC735F@yahoo.co.jp> <3FCDC9FC.6EA04A84@yahoo.co.jp> <3FCDD222.6080500@hotmail.com> <3FCDD1D3.1FDAF79A@yahoo.co.jp> Reply-To: declan_murphy@hotmail.com NNTP-Posting-Host: i61-195-247-171.us.catvmics.ne.jp (61.195.247.171) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-2022-JP Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de 1070455436 68992268 61.195.247.171 ([139419]) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.0rc2) Gecko/20020510 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org fj.life.in-japan:8721 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