>>> You weren't on the UT at the time, but I just wonder whether you thought the same in 1999.
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>>>I was and I did.
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>>I checked, and you joined a month after the bombing was over, so I figure you didn't exactly jump into the discussion, which probably already petered out by the time.
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>>>>However, I cannot stand this ceterum censeo interruption of any civilized talk. Marcus Portia Cato, remember, did that when finishing his own speeches, not as a response in a dispute. Also, this notion that christianity is so much better than islam... c'mon. The christian world kills with the power of banks; islam kills with poor man's weapons. You blow this difference up as if it was something substantially different.
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>>>It's really sad that you can't tell the difference.
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>>It's in the method, not in substance. You claim that christianity is somehow the overwhelmingly good guys.
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>Most certainly in my lifetime.

Half a million children in Iraq die because of sanctions. Madeleine Albright claims "it was worth it".

Prices of food rise because of the decision to add 10% alcohol into gasoline. Unknown millions in Africa are priced out of their basic food, many die. SUV owners think the decision helps keep gas prices lower than they'd otherwise be.

Contras take over in Nicaragua and their first move is to tear down the schools and hospitals built by sandinistas.

CIA takes down Allende and as a result Chile is riddled with years of Pinochet's terror.

Banks blackmail the Congress into forking out the bailout. Unknown number of businesses fold, lay off their workers, because banks must be saved. Equally unknown number of families are promoted into the rank of homeless.

Enron.

Setting up a Vietnam for USSR in Afghanistan, with the net result of propping up a Taliban regime. Toppling the Taliban, net result warlord rule and revival of production of opiates. Indiscriminate use of drones, shooting at weddings and funerals, killing dozens of civilians to get one suspect.

Agent Orange.

Using genetics to promote sales of herbicides.

Bhopal.

French Foreign Legion. And, generally, the colonial and post-colonial behavior of UK, France, Belgium, Netherlands. Happened in our lifetime.