What was this thread about again? 
“All that it takes for evil to triumph is for good people to do nothing”
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mantis said:What was this thread about again?
I was starting to think it was about finding out how stupid Collingwood Supporters are.
If you are talking about James Earl Carter?,he's more intelligent then RWR or your idol MHT.medusala said:
HAHA, I must repent my sins. I am going to hell with Just Maybe. Maybe JM and myself should aquaint ourselves and get to know each other on another level if you know what I meanMurray said:Is that a 'generalist' comment
How's Sanja van H going these days?bmwofoz said:
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Bombers 2003 said:
I'm sorry but it was a very Big School, and I don't recall the name, I lefted it over 10 years ago. back when the School was in Ashleigh Ave.
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XXX KINGS said:HAHA, I must repent my sins. I am going to hell with Just Maybe. Maybe JM and myself should aquaint ourselves and get to know each other on another level if you know what I mean
If you keep saying things like that, perhaps you will end up in hell
Where's U NIT when you need him
This quote from Edmund Burke is most commonly applied in our immediate lifetimes to the appeasement of the National Socialists by all the Brit political parties in the 1930s.
But I don't think it applies to the "evil" of the Saddam/Baathist regime.
Because Good people did try over many years to remove that regime after Saddam/Baathist regime broke the ceasefire of 1991.
17 UN Resolutions. And Bill Clinton tried. Everything outside another war. But they never tried appeasement. (Except the French and the Russians)
Sure, there were plenty of "good people" - alot of them on this Board - who were cheering against every action Clinton and Blair took to get rid of the regime while avoiding war, and cheering on the subversion of the UN sanctions ...
But finally the regime has gone. (No thanks to the "ggod people", of course.) But it went, not because W and Co were any "gooder" than anyone else, but because US strategic interests required it - and also because the US and Brit leaders and their electorates have the example of WW2 to guide them.
In this age of instant communications - so unlike the era in which Edmund Burke was writing - I'm not sure the quote can actually apply any more.
After all, leader of US and UK has the example of what happened in the leadup to WW2 before them.
In years to come they'll also have the example of the leadup to Islamofascisms public declaration of war.
The difference is that the Govt leaders in the west, because of the WW2 example, were prepared to act against the anti war movement and the yappers and yowlers on Internet boards ..... and get re-elected for the actions they took!
But I don't think it applies to the "evil" of the Saddam/Baathist regime.
Because Good people did try over many years to remove that regime after Saddam/Baathist regime broke the ceasefire of 1991.
17 UN Resolutions. And Bill Clinton tried. Everything outside another war. But they never tried appeasement. (Except the French and the Russians)
Sure, there were plenty of "good people" - alot of them on this Board - who were cheering against every action Clinton and Blair took to get rid of the regime while avoiding war, and cheering on the subversion of the UN sanctions ...
But finally the regime has gone. (No thanks to the "ggod people", of course.) But it went, not because W and Co were any "gooder" than anyone else, but because US strategic interests required it - and also because the US and Brit leaders and their electorates have the example of WW2 to guide them.
In this age of instant communications - so unlike the era in which Edmund Burke was writing - I'm not sure the quote can actually apply any more.
After all, leader of US and UK has the example of what happened in the leadup to WW2 before them.
In years to come they'll also have the example of the leadup to Islamofascisms public declaration of war.
The difference is that the Govt leaders in the west, because of the WW2 example, were prepared to act against the anti war movement and the yappers and yowlers on Internet boards ..... and get re-elected for the actions they took!
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GuruJane said:
How do you know they were good?
Far from everything. What a load of reductionist twaddle.
She's a teacher and i think you would of left by the time she started ther.bmwofoz said:
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You would have to be joking right? Have a look in the mirror.Murray said:
No different to the rabid left.
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Bombers 2003 said:
I finished at the end of 1993, A truly great Year. the year The Bomber's WON flag no 15
Monkster said:
I think the issue is that its not so much the US people who have made money out of Iraq and the War on Terror, but a frew select individuals and corporations with close links to the White House that have.......
In regards how we should have stopped Bush, well we should probably not have supported him into Iraq. Many other nations didn't, New Zealand for one. I personally could understand/rationalise the link between terrorism and Afghanistan, but the move into Iraq was just not justifiable on any grounds. What we (the Australian people) should have done was not re-elect Howard, essentially as a protest against his foreign policy.
