Re: [OT] Someone has the blinders on today

From: "Thomas Barclay" <kaladorn@fox.nstn.ca>

> John A said:
>  Sort of a final chapter to the boneheaded 
> history of English Colonialism (granted that 
> the English have done better than some 
> other colonialists--but feeling good about 
> comparisons to Imperial Japan, Leopold of
> Belgium, and the Spanish Inquisition mean 
> you're in the wrong category to begin with.)

Excellently put.

> [Tomb] Maybe I'm alone here, but there 
> are a lot of innocent people in Iraq, Syria 
> and Afghanistan. Some maybe just ignorant 
> sheep, many may just be terrified proto-
> serfs. But they're people. I don't think I 
> could "really appreciate" the deaths of 
> large number of innocents, who are usually 
> the ones who get hammered in any conflict 
> and especially if it involves the precedent 
> that Nuclear War is once again acceptable.