From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,dbd35bb508093bd9 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-12-15 20:53:57 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!nycmny1-snh1.gtei.net!washdc3-snf1!news.gtei.net!cyclone1.gnilink.net!spamfinder.gnilink.net!nwrddc01.gnilink.net.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: Hyman Rosen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021210 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: OT Hatred (was Re: New Ada compiler for .NET) References: <3DEA5CC0.6B435E66@adaworks.com> <3df55f03_2@news.tm.net.my> <1039531607.289271@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> <3DF7362A.87F9FDA6@brighton.ac.uk> <1039618334.652640@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> <2ttK9.2461$X56.125646@newsfep1-gui.server.ntli.net> In-Reply-To: <2ttK9.2461$X56.125646@newsfep1-gui.server.ntli.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 04:53:56 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 162.83.250.34 X-Complaints-To: abuse@verizon.net X-Trace: nwrddc01.gnilink.net 1040014436 162.83.250.34 (Sun, 15 Dec 2002 23:53:56 EST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 15 Dec 2002 23:53:56 EST Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:31870 Date: 2002-12-16T04:53:56+00:00 List-Id: chris.danx wrote: > Once perhaps and got it's ass kicked 13 years ago There's an amusing article in the New York Times today about the Mother of All Battles mosque in Iraq. It has minarets shaped like Scud missilies and Kalashnikov barrels. It's a very nice bit of Orwellian "defeat is victory". > Or accidently bringing S Korea in and making a bloody mess of two > countries instead of one (which wouldn't look good on his nice clean > resume). So apparently all you liberal folks are in agreement that it's NK's mighty armed forces which are keeping the US at bay. Kind of stands pacifism on its head, though. > America ... war. Doesn't your brain hurt when you twist it into knots like that? > You ignore you're countries dependance on oil That's "your". I'm not ignoring anything. It's certainly a main reason for the interest and concern of the whole world in that area. But there's nothing wrong with being concerned about the supply of a vital resource. No one, except for perhaps Iraq, is interested in stealing the region's oil. > You blindly trust your government and question not their motives. Their motives are to protect the security and economic interests of this country, exactly as they should be. > You ignore the fact I'm not ignoring anything. The way to deal with madmen is to kill them.