Re: Re: Re: No
onthebottom said:
This, from your artical, makes my point:
"But by asking why, and by trying to truly understand, we must remember that acts of terrorism like the ones we’ve just experienced can never be justified. I repeat: nothing we’ve ever done, none of our policies, no matter how questionable, can ever justify terrorism."
Enough said.
OTB
No, not enough said. You should have quoted one sentence more past that paragraph to give what was said context.
“But if terrorism can never be justified, that does not mean that it cannot be explained or understood.
See that’s a really important point that you can’t quite seem to comprehend and it’s why short-sighted philosophies like Bush’s and yours cause the cycle of terrorism to repeat and renew itself w/o end.
What you should have focused on is this idea of patriotism and duty:
"But I’d like to suggest a more enlightened view of patriotism, as stated by the Nobel Prize writer Albert Camus, who said that “
The true patriot is one who gives his highest loyalty not to his country as it is, regardless of what it does, but rather to what it can and ought to be.” In other words, the real patriot insists that his or her nation live up to its ideals."
Unfortunately, that type of moral reasoning is above you at present.