9/28/2002: What Semtex does

[jaguar]

The reason i said something is becasue i thought this one corssed the line from an interesting image with political connotations to a political statement with an interesting image attached. Xugumad did a better job with my arguement. Nothing wrong iwth Ut weighing in, but using actual IoTD posts primarily as political soapboxes will turn people off, IoTD is usuall the first thign they see, sure, dont shut up, i'm just suggesting waht will happen. Since it is the first thing people see it will also more of a political bias amoungst new members.

Wouldn't those two statements contradict each other?

Nope, i do the same thing. Nations are like people, but worse, they have *no* ethics, morality of qualms about anything. Of course niggly little things like ethics are going to be ignored if its in our economic or strategic interest. Doesn't mean its a good thing.

Actually *more* people are impoverished and disenfranchised these days; it's a trick of increasing population overall.

Ratio. When these people get pissed off enough, thigns happen. Like the french revolution. Or the Russian one. Or the bombing of the WTC. Or the rise of Nazism after WW1. The difference between say WW2 and this is the enemy is far less defined. But that's offtopic. A mix of circumstances have created an extremely disadvantaged group of people who are getting really angry - and the US is the obvious target. Trying to bomb the crud out of them all is not going to help, its asymmetricial warfare.