[MD] Barbarian attack

[Platt Holden]

Herbert:

> My question would be - if we (The USA, G.B. etc...) have WMD's and ONLY 
> us how does that make a third world country feel?

Most countries have signed the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. So I 
guess they feel OK about keeping those weapons out of the hands of 
Muslim terrorists. But, it's just a guess. Nobody knows how anybody 
"feels," much less an entire country.

> Are we somewhat
> suppressing  them in the name of safety? How do you think a country that
> is not "allowed"  to possess the same "peace-keeping" abilities as the
> big boys do feel after  watching these big boys do their own damage (
> attacks on innocents-yes the USA  has blood on it's hands like everyone
> else!)? This goes round and round because everyone's views are
> different.  Britney Spears outsells Mozart. Does that make it "right"???

Since World War II no "big boy" has set off an atomic bomb. To equate 
the blood spilled by terrorists to that spilled to fight terrorism is 
to grant Muslim radicalism the same moral standing as the West's  
defense of democracy and intellectual values. Pirsig's moral hierarchy 
explains why such parity is flawed.  

Platt