Google| Subject | Re: Republicanism still an offence in England? (wasRe: Queen mother |
| From | ?jevind L?ng |
| Date | 2002-05-15 17:57 (2002-05-15 17:57) |
| Message-ID | <XzvE8.4729$iB4.13748@nntpserver.swip.net> |
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| Newsgroups | alt.fan.tolkien |
| Follows | Morgil Blackhope |
| Followups | Jim Campbell (1h & 18m) > ?jevind L?ng Bagronk the Happy Orc (6h & 24m) > ?jevind L?ng |
Morgil Blackhope wrote: [snip]
Morgil BlackhopeMorgil, you insist on believing that all actions have material causes. But in fact, people are capable of killing for religious or nationalist or ideological causes. Not to say that you are wrong about Kuwait; but rescuing the Kuwaitis from that blood-stained megalomaniac in Bagdad was a good thing to do. That it also served America's best interests is an additional case in its favour; it does not mysteriously nullify ther fact that the Kuwaitis were liberated.
That is just the way Arabian retorics works. But would they really bother to do anything about "godless and immoral" if there weren't for other reasons? You can see the same phenomenon in US political speech. They don't say: "We wanna secure our oil imports from Saudi-Arabia and Kuwait", but instead: "We want to liberate the Free people of Kuwait from the hands of the Evil dictator!" Technically what they said was correct, but which do you think was the *real* reason they actually decided to act? :-)
?jevind
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