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Subject: Terrorists are not evil
ambush    11/21/2005 5:44:04 PM
Source is the Toronto Sun, link
sun.canoe.ca/News/TorontoAndGTA/2005/11/21/1315976-sun.html

Chris Matthews host of the MSNBC show Hardball, speaking of America after 9-11 feels that our enemies are not evil, they just have a different perspective.

?The person on the other side is not evil -- they just have a different perspective."

We can only assume that Mr. Matthews feels the following were also not evil, they just
have/had different persepctives:

Nazis
Stalinists
Maoists

What he seems to be saying is that the death of reporter Daniel Pearl, the death of thousands on 9-11, the millions killed by Hitler, Stalin and Mao were all the results of ?different perspectives? with no evil intent. Perhaps he feels that all these ?differences in perspective? could have been settled by a cup of tea and a group
hug. It worked so well for Chamberlain when dealing with Hitler.

The e-mail address for Hardball is hardball@msnbc.com

MSNBC TV email address is viewerservices@msnbc.com
 
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Horsesoldier    RE:Terrorists are not evil   11/21/2005 6:42:43 PM
Tastes great versus less filling is a difference of perspective. By being unable to recognize that yes, when a "different perspective" translates into the deliberate targetting and murder of civilians (to make what I'm sure Matthews would also call "legitimate political statement" . . .) it does become really and truly evil Matthews demonstrates nothing except that he is a moral imbecile of the most literal and highest order. As you say, if today's murderers and atrocity prone terrorists are not evil, just differently perspectived, then it obviously stands to reason that so are the Nazis, the Khmer Rouge, the Sendero Luminoso, etc. This is kind of thinking that is truly the rot that has destroyed liberal politics in America, transforming the party of Franklin Roosevelt, John Kennedy, and Lyndon Johnson, with all its internationalism and faith in the power of human freedom and liberty, and turned it into a collection of apologists for horror.
 
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Jerry W. Loper    Sauce for the goose   3/23/2006 12:30:13 PM
Does Matthews really want to give us this much "wiggle room"? If Mecca was to disappear in a mushroom cloud after a really bad terrorist attack, it wouldn't be because we were evil, it'd be just because we have a slightly "different perspective," following Matthews's logic.
 
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