RE: virus: Re:Banality of Evil and Digital Photography

From: Eva-Lise Carlstrom (evalise@yahoo.com)
Date: Sat May 15 2004 - 10:54:10 MDT

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    --- Blunderov <squooker@mweb.co.za> wrote:
    > [Blunderov]The other day on TV I saw a distressed
    > American wailing 'why
    > should we be held to different standards than they
    > are?'
    >
    > But this is precisely the point of the war, or at
    > least so Bush would have
    > us believe, - to bring different, better standards
    > to the benighted Iraqis.
    >
    > The Geneva Convention doesn't, AFAIK, make any
    > provisions for 'moral
    > equivalence'.

    Below are some good posts on why we should be appalled
    if America abuses people, even if other countries do
    worse.

    ...because we claim to do better:
    http://www.livejournal.com/users/theferrett/290276.html
    ...because we have so much power:
    http://www.livejournal.com/users/dikaiosunh/18240.html

    --Eva

            
                    
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