Re: A newbie's confusion about GPL
I'd like to stop this discussion :-)
you get in one more good reply and then I'm dropping it
> Then does that give people in Afghanistan and Iraq the right to attack
> America? As it does seem that (some) Americans want to kill them.
I said "we only want to kill them because they want to kill us"
if they stop, we stop
if they don't we don't
>
> The fact that "some" people want to kill you is not reason enough to
> indiscriminately wage war on a country. In fact it is a bad idea from a
> tactical point of view, as attacking someone will INCREASE their will to
> kill you.
yeah but we're so powerful we'll win that's the point of wars
> Any strategy that uses cruelty and capriciousness is clearly not going
> to make anyone love the cruel and capricious party (U.S. and allies).
> Therefore that clearly must not be the reason that these tactics are
> used. The Bush administration is not *that* stupid.
seems like we're already hated, what's the loss
>
> (Bin Laden doesn't use cruelty to make people not want to kill him. He
> uses it because he wants to start a holy war.)
>
we'd be glad to oblige him
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