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From: John Fields on 8 Aug 2006 06:41 On Mon, 7 Aug 2006 19:50:48 +0200, "Frank Bemelman" <f.bemelmanq(a)xs4all.invalid.nl> wrote: >Yep, they're now even more deaf and blind. 100% terrorists. >Don't even have an idealistic motivation for their insane >behaviour. --- That's just stupid. Terrorists _are_ driven by ideals. What it seems you're trying to say is that were killers without a cause. -- John Fields Professional Circuit Designer
From: Eeyore on 8 Aug 2006 06:42 John Fields wrote: > On Mon, 7 Aug 2006 19:50:48 +0200, "Frank Bemelman" > <f.bemelmanq(a)xs4all.invalid.nl> wrote: > > >Yep, they're now even more deaf and blind. 100% terrorists. > >Don't even have an idealistic motivation for their insane > >behaviour. > > That's just stupid. > > Terrorists _are_ driven by ideals. You're certainly not wrong there. > What it seems you're trying to say is that were killers without a > cause. He was talking about the USA ! Did you not get that ? Graham
From: John Woodgate on 8 Aug 2006 06:42 In message <rllgd29r5f1cn50r87m4piua756ltktp6t(a)4ax.com>, dated Tue, 8 Aug 2006, xray <notreally(a)hotmail.invalid> writes >John, it's good to see you back! Thank you. >I view your well informed but basically neutral postings in threads >like this as similar to control rods in a nuclear pile. Well, perhaps it's not a case of just absorbing the verbal neutrons but deflecting them to more interesting nuclei. Incidentally, BBC TV did show Bush admitting to saying 'nucular' and trying to pronounce 'nuclear', with difficulty. But he isn't the first President to mispronounce the word. Wasn't it Nixon who started it? -- OOO - Own Opinions Only. Try www.jmwa.demon.co.uk and www.isce.org.uk 2006 is YMMVI- Your mileage may vary immensely. John Woodgate, J M Woodgate and Associates, Rayleigh, Essex UK
From: John Woodgate on 8 Aug 2006 06:48 In message <44D865AA.A7CA15C0(a)REMOVETHIS.hotmail.com>, dated Tue, 8 Aug 2006, Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)REMOVETHIS.hotmail.com> writes >I'm aware of what you mean and it's very silly of you ( mainly ) to >bring it up in this context. I treasure your opinion. > >During WW2 the RAF attempted precision bombing on industrial >war-related targets but was defeated by navigational problems, yet >persisted and developed Gee, OBOE and H2S , led by the Pathfinder >squadrons which radically improved their targeting. Sometimes. But we can class the failures as 'accidents of war'. >As did the USA with their Norden bombsight that didn't actually deliver >the goods in practice. > >There were of course less pleasant examples but bear in mind what the >Luftwaffe had done to London ! It was precisely the 'less pleasant examples', such as Dresden (but a whole lot of much smaller towns that were flattened because they had a bridge or railway nearby), that I was referring to. You are just as blinkered when UK is criticized as you accuse the Americans of being about your criticisms of USA. -- OOO - Own Opinions Only. Try www.jmwa.demon.co.uk and www.isce.org.uk 2006 is YMMVI- Your mileage may vary immensely. John Woodgate, J M Woodgate and Associates, Rayleigh, Essex UK
From: Frank Bemelman on 8 Aug 2006 06:55
"John Fields" <jfields(a)austininstruments.com> schreef in bericht news:qbqgd2l7bda5k4iie9g2r9cofp6f4jaj10(a)4ax.com... > On Mon, 7 Aug 2006 19:50:48 +0200, "Frank Bemelman" > <f.bemelmanq(a)xs4all.invalid.nl> wrote: > >>Yep, they're now even more deaf and blind. 100% terrorists. >>Don't even have an idealistic motivation for their insane >>behaviour. > > --- > That's just stupid. > > Terrorists _are_ driven by ideals. > > What it seems you're trying to say is that were killers without a > cause. In lack of a better word, I'd prefer to stick to terrorists without the idealistic motivation. I can understand idealitic motivations or even feel some sympathy for it, but not if the motivation is doubtful or seems to be inspired by stone age instincts. -- Thanks, Frank. (remove 'q' and '.invalid' when replying by email) |