Allan,I think you are drawing a lot of conclusions that are not necessary, unless you take my participation in this blog as an effort to win or lose a debate.I might have done that before but I realize this isn’t the place to try to take things that far.
The history I posted was for the sake of contrast against the concept of a kindergarten “Freedom Walk” sponsored by the governement, the U.S military, U.S military industrial complex and who ever else is motivated to sell patriot lies. I also wanted to show Arraya that I considered his point of view valid and make up for my sarcasm, which was delivered without appropriate warning.
I do think what side you fall in these discussions is a matter of perspective,among many other things which I won’t go into, even though you probably say that bit “tongue in cheek”.I know South Americans who have been much closer to Che than your average American college student, who prefer him to the other alternatives.
I think the moral equivalency argument is a lame attack/defense. Disagreement is pretty normal.It is just not tolerated well when the stakes are made high. You fool yourself into thinking you will win or do win the argument by being on moral high ground too often.
Generally I consider you pretty open minded until you get pushed to a point where your faith in who are the good guys and who are the bad guys gets sufficiently challenged. I am not going to argue about who they are. I don’t think categories like that actually exist on the scale of populations which make up nations or major world religions. I just believe that the balance of power is corrupted in the Middle East and we are the more responsible at this point in history.
