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I can't let the comments concerning courage go by unchallenged.
By all measures through history the premeditated killing
of unarmed, uninvolved civilians has never been anything
short of murder. Period. This goes for uniformed
combatants and double for non-uniformed. It is only
recently that some have taken to calling these acts
couragous. This might be due to the wave of moral relativism that has swept us up recently - one mans
terrorist is another mans freedom fighter, it all depends on
what the meaning of "is" is, etc. It was not so long ago
that the attack on Pearl Harbor was described as "cowardly"
for very obvious reasons, as was our atrocities at Mai Lai.
How low have we fallen when people can say with a straight
face that using a commercial airliner as a guided missile to
attack office buildings is an act of courage.
I have nothing left to say on this, maybe it's time this thread was closed.
[Edited by Dan_ref on Sep 12th, 2002 at 08:10 AM]
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