[Peace-discuss] Corn Festival -- RE: Sweet Corn Fest Fri & Sat!

[Laurie Solomon]

Why do people feel that they can successfully argue with mental midgets?

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From: "Stuart Levy" <slevy at ncsa.uiuc.edu>
Sent: Saturday, August 28, 2010 5:54 PM
To: "Bill Strutz" <bill.strutz at gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [Peace-discuss] Corn Festival -- RE: Sweet Corn Fest Fri & Sat!

> On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 09:09:09PM -0500, Bill Strutz wrote:
>> S'allright.  It's good to know what happened, though.
>> The 5-7 shift was fairly quiet.  It was in the 7-9 shift that Stuart had 
>> to
>> handle some argumentive people.  I think that beer may have been a 
>> factor..
>> -- Bill
>
> [oops, thought i'd sent this before -- that's why you hadn't seen it, 
> Carl!]
>
> The ones I talked with [one or maybe two Iraq vets, and the wife of 
> another]
> didn't seem to be drunk.  Just committed to the good effects of war.
> We're doing more good in Iraq than harm, you know.  Building schools,
> improving literacy, and fighting them over there so we don't have to
> fight them here -- the whole line.  And in their eyes, Bradley Manning
> is guilty, guilty, guilty (not just 'accused'), and no hero.
>
>
>
> The only really frightening encounter of the evening came later.
> Jenifer and I talked with a man (not apparently drunk) who came by with
> his young son.  He approved of bringing the troops home.   Said we should
> rid ourselves of the whole problem of the Middle East by nuking it,
> just like we did Japan (Japanese were proud people, they'd never 
> surrender).
> Nuking the Middle East would save lots of American lives.   We know
> those people are dangerous -- just remember 9/11.
> He appeared to be serious.  Jenifer offered a counterargument:
> if some Timothy-McVeigh-like American went to Mexico and
> bombed something there, would he consider that the Mexicans
> would be right to bomb the US?  It made no dent.  America is Different.
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