From: "Old Goat" <olgoat-AT-kdsi.net>
Subject: Re: star wars vs. kamakazis
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 09:11:00 -0500


I'd like to unequivocally state that you're absolutely wrong about this.
(But I can't.)

Goat

----- Original Message -----
From: Hooten N Hollars <hooten_hollars-AT-juno.com>
To: <swilbur-AT-wcnet.org>; <anarchy-list-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu>
Cc: <hooten_hollars-AT-juno.com>
Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2001 22:55
Subject: Re: star wars vs. kamakazis


>
> On Tue, 11 Sep 2001 23:14:49 -0400 (EDT) "Shawn P. Wilbur"
> <swilbur-AT-wcnet.org> writes:
> > send email to majordomo-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu
> > with the message: subscribe anarchy-list
> >
> > take care,
> >
> > -shawn
>
>
> Thanks, Shawn.  My other account is now down.
>
> The shit has hit the fan.  We (the US) are going to *level* afghanistan.
> Period.  It doesn't matter if Osami Bin Laden did it or not. He has
> admitted he has screwed the pooch in the past; that makes him the number
> one dog-lover on our list.  The US is the only country that has the
> capbilities to prove he did it.  We are also the only country who can
> vindicate him.  We are not interested in vindication, only vindictivness.
>  The american people and the american war machine will not absorb 1,000
> dead or 10,000 dead.  We will not settle for a long trial and appeal and
> a couple of lethal injections.  Bush said there is no differecne between
> the 'terrorists" and those "who harbor them."   That means the Taliban
> are history.  Maybe Iraq too, but definitely the Taliban.  We hit them
> with 80 cruise missiles two years ago and "destroyed" a terrorist base.
> A "Terrorist base" is two tents and an obstacle course.  Americans will
> not settle for that.  We/they want blood.
>
> And if Bin Laden only has 250 followers?  Will the US consider it "just"
> ifwe kill all  250 pay for 10,000?  Not at all.  We are at a point where
> numbers matter.  The reality is we can bomb the Afghani countryside for
> the next 10 years and not feel vindicated by the numbers.  We are going
> to nuke that fucking place; period.  The Taliban have NO political
> capital, not even with china.  Kabul is going to disappear, and fast.
> The only way to guarantee Americans will feel satisfied is to glass the
> place.   After Pearl harbor it took 4 years and a nuclear war before we
> satisfied our lust for revenge.  This will be no different.
>
> I am sick of dead bodies in NYC and Washington.  I am also sick of dead
> Iraqi babies and dead palestinians.  How we choose to alienate 600
> million arabs in order to prop up a fascist Israeli regime escapes me.
> Bush and company are in a trap.  We are the only superpower.  We have
> announced there are no rules.  The only "anti-terrorist" tactic we
> haven't tried is complete immolation.  It is coming as sure as the sun
> will shine.
>
> But if we do it and there are 250 followers how will the Generals know
> they got them all?  What if there are 2500 instead of 250?  25,000
> instead of 2,500.  How many new recruits will there be when we kill the
> first quota?  There is a shitstorm growing and it will make the gulf war
> pale by comparison.   And we too are caught in the trap.
>
> Shit.
>
>
> carp
>