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"Hyman Rosen" <hyrosen@mail.com> wrote in message
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> Adrian Hoe wrote:
>  > You want to fight the war but don't want to see your men and women
>  > killed on the battle field. Don't go to war.
>
> Instead, we will use our superior weaponry (which may even use Ada!)
> and skill to go to war and not have our men and women killed anyway.
> We will fight as unfairly as humanly possible to insure that all of
> the casualties are on the other side.

Which is as it should be.  To quote (paraphrase?) Gen. George S. Patton --
"You don't win a war by dying for your country.  You win by make the other
son of a bitch die for his country."

>
>  > What about the feeling of people in Afganistan, Palestine, and Iraq
>  > when they dropped tonnes of explosive onto thier home?
>
> Oderint dum metuant. Don't mess around with Jim. Try to imagine what
> that part of the world would look like if the president had actually
> permitted our armed forces to express the rage engendered by 9/11.
>

I think our new national motto should be "No more Mr. Nice Guy!", or "Don't
make us come over there!"