[Peace-discuss] Why are we in Afghanistan? Etc.?

[C. G. Estabrook]

Unfortunately I think our main aim is to kill people -- from Vietnam and 
Cambodia to Gaza and AfPak -- as a demonstration to the locals that they're to 
do as they're told.  And we can do it because, as you rightly say and Obama 
showed again this week, their lives just don't matter to us.  --CGE

Stuart Levy wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 09:00:40AM -0600, LAURIE SOLOMON wrote:
>> But Carl isn't this the Amerikan way of introducing population control with
>>  respect to both the US and the rest of the world.
> 
> No.  If our main aim were to kill people, we'd do it 'way more efficiently
> than our current wars do. We kill people because their lives just don't
> matter to us.
> 
> For a reason why they might matter, may I refer you to Jonathan Swift's
> Modest Proposal, http://art-bin.com/art/omodest.html
> 
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