IP: RE: Against hate

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

[ I guess I will endlessly have to repeat what I have said before. I try to 
balance what I send out. Except for "empty" or nasty beyond belief messages 
I send thoughtful stuff especially stuff I disagree with . I am counting on 
the fact that a democratic people must hear all sides and then decide what 
they believe. If the output seems unbalanced it is the fault of the input. djf]

> From: Herb Schorr <schorr () ISI EDU>
> To: "'farber () cis upenn edu'" <farber () cis upenn edu>
> Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2001 08:37:21 -0700
>
>
> thats great. so Chamberlain was exactly right in not opposing Hitler at
> Munich and we should have begged the Japanese for peace after Pearl Harbor
> saying clearly we needed to mend our ways and try and reeducate them and
> eliminate their sources of hate of us.
>
> I think a lot of the stuff being forwarded by you with this slant advocates
> an approach which unfortunately has never worked to my knowledge. Yes
> violence begats violence but maybe turning the other cheek begats even more
> violence (witness the Holocaust).
> So on what time scale does Mr. Burstein's prescription work ? It doesnt seem
> to have worked for thousands of years so whats going to make it work this
> time? And while we wait how much damage do we take ? Wake up!
>
> Finally to add to my polemic I notice very little being said about the
> financing of all of this terrorism and the states and instiutions that make
> it possible. I think we should also be at "war"(not physical warfare but
> economic warfare) with countries that aid and abet the financing of these
> activites. What happened with Switzerland during the second World War(which
> many historians say extended the war)and is happening now with many
> countries participating needs to be stopped.



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