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Toby
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Originally posted by dick-richardson
The numbers are solid, and the reasons stated for the executions seem solid. I've never denied that China has problems they need to deal with - merely the severity portrayed by our media and our responsibility to lay blame when our hands are stained as well.

Well, I doubt that we'll ever see eye to eye on this, but I don't think that blame has anything to do with anything. Degree probably has more to do with it. Saying that "our hands are stained as well" is like saying that you can't say anything about a bank robber because you made a personal call on company time once. Both of you stole something, but in the big picture, isn't there a bit of a difference?

09-11-2001 02:37 PM

VTL
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Toby:

I assume the article was (and probably still is) online - I read it on my Prism via the NYT AvantGo channel.

Hey - since I worked a reference to my Prism into the thread, does this mean it's not "off topic" anymore?

09-11-2001 10:18 PM

dick-richardson
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Bush will have no trouble getting his NMD up and running after all this. None from me, at any rate.

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09-11-2001 11:26 PM

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Bush will have no trouble getting his NMD up and running after all this. None from me, at any rate.

Such a defense system would have no effect on the events today: completely ineffective to stop this kind of activity.

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09-11-2001 11:39 PM

dick-richardson
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Such a defense system would have no effect on the events today: completely ineffective to stop this kind of activity.

I realize that. But the events of today have put into doubt my assessment of terrorists' intelligence and willingness to die a pointless death. IOW, I feel less comforted by the blanket of "mutually assured destruction" than I once did.

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09-11-2001 11:52 PM

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