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Originally posted by Sidd Finch
See, I treat the "fuck you and the horse you rode in on" stuff as pure hyperbole (and part of my using this board to vent steam). Sorry if you and other don't see it that way. I'll try to tone that down.
As for how I see the truth in Ty's analogy, it's the idea that it's okay to kill people for what they think, rather than what they do. The second part (the comparison of the 911 terrorists to Israel) is not an apt analogy, which is why I only said that there was SOME truth to what Ty said.
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I'm glad Sidd got my point, which was not put well. As I understand it, Churchill suggested that the men and women who worked in the WTC were culpable because they played of their role in the U.S. imperial hegemony (or whatever):
- As for those in the World Trade Center, well, really, let's get a grip here, shall we? True enough, they were civilians of a sort. But innocent? Gimme a break. They formed a technocratic corps at the very heart of America's global financial empire, the "mighty engine of profit" to which the military dimension of U.S. policy has always been enslaved and they did so both willingly and knowingly.
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It was the notion of targeting civilians that I was referring to; I was not trying to suggest that there is some equivalence between the respective causes.
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