American Patriot - do you believe that the 1700+ and climbing American troops killed in Iraq “made their choices and it killed [them]” to join the military, many under the corrupt, war-mongering George W. Bush and his wild animals named Cheney, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, and Feith?

And I know Evergreen State College - it will chew up and spit out neocon youth and send them running into the woods screaming for daddy to get them out of there….

Do they have a singular obsession with one “enemy” (in this case, Corrie) and simply enjoy cyber-roaming from place to place at all hours, leaving bleakly interchangeable globs of excrement in every available open space ? Is it a particularly specialized hobby, like a philatelist who specializes in stamps of old fighter jets ?

Well, at least that would explain why it took Mr/Ms Patritroll so long to… errrr, respond to this thread. I use the term “respond” loosely, since it’s obvious that Mr/Ms Patritroll didn’t actually read the thread.

Ho hum.

I blame Evergreen for allowing their students to indulge any notion that enters the ether of their unformed minds and the socialsits for using her death as a hammer (pun intended) to push their anti-American afenda that is thinly veiled as pacifism.

Rachel made her choices and it killed her. There is no sypmathy, rather, it is called NATURAL SELECTION.

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Several years ago, I planned a comic which ended up shelved due to artistic differences with my proposed collaborator. It was set in a dystopic future society, and featured a young woman with radical political views who kept open house for people who shared any or all of her views. One of her houseguests turned out to be a suicide bomber, and after some investigation she was convicted of terrorist activities.

It was supposed to be satire. It was supposed to be fiction. It wasn’t supposed to be a prediction of where we’re heading.

But this kind of emotional blindness is rapidly leading Israel and it’s supporters up a cul de sac where anti-zionism is being inflamed by the lack of responsiblity that Israel continues to display towards the Palestinians that were dispossessed by the creation of their state.

Even if there could be a deterrent factor motivating the bulldozings, once the attacker has been killed, what deterrence can there be two years after his death?

Thus, in addition to the violation of the Geneva accords that you noted, there is simply no observable logic to some of the bulldozings.

Clearly, there is much glossed over in Israel’s actions because we are allied with Israel. I do not blame the bulldozings on ‘Israelis’ any more than I blame our war in Iraq on you and me. The blame falls on Israeli leaders like Sharon. It may be true that many Arabs are so anti-Jew that all Israelis have an understandable sense of persecution, yet it’s noteworthy that many maintain perspective and their humanity, while guys like Sharon use that persecution as a blank check to commit acts of brutality that deserve condemnation and prosecution.

And Corrie? She deserves far better, in life or in death, than she’s gotten from her critics. Mark indicates he’s deliberately waited a year to bring forth his critique yet has not delivered any fresh information to bolster his position. I remain baffled by his assertion and I do find it appalling as it stands. I’ll be asking him to elucidate further.

I don’t think there are any examples of “legitimate and humane killing.” I’m morally horrified by anyone who thinks that killing to protect land ownership makes sense, and that includes both Palestinians and Israelis. Nonetheless, while shooting at people is always moreally questionable, shooting at armed opponants is preferable to shooting at unarmed opponants.

A leading UN official has warned US manufacturer Caterpillar that it may be complicit in human rights violations in the West Bank and Gaza.

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