[OT] Someone has the blinders on today

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.)

[Tomb] Unlike U.S. adventurism and proxy 
warfighting which has done its share to 
contribute to the current African and Middle 
Eastern situations not to mention that 
despots US foreign policy has propped up in 
places like South/Central America? I think 
all the majors powers have played this 
inherently amoral power game and the end 
result is a more messed up world. I'm not 
terribly sure anyone from USA should be 
throwing stones.... "Judge not, lest ye be 
judged."  

If only we could get Syria and Iraq to nuke 
each other--now that's a fireworks show I 
could appreciate.

[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. 

And in a strictly Americentric viewpoint, 
this is STILL a disasterous idea - It is very 
easy to knockdown satellites and either 
India or Pakistan could probably manage it 
with a little work. It probably isn't all that 
hard to put a big nuke up to orbit and take 
out a lot of comms and recce satellites. If 
you don't have them, why not take em out? 

I don't think killing tons of people in a 
pyrhic display of criminal stupidity is going 
to help anyone anywhere. It sure isn't 
going to make the world a better place, nor 
is polluting the atmosphere and land with 
radioactives. This particular case is one 
where the US, Europe, and China and 
Russia should probably be wading in big-
time and saying "Sit down, shut up, and act 
like adults! If either of you starts 
something, you'll regret it badly for a very 
very long time." 

This is, on the other hand, far far offtopic 
for THIS list, and should be taken OT or let 
die the death it deserves. This is a scary 
ugly situation but it doesn't really relate to 
the 2183 situation.

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