Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Yugoslavia to fSU and Chile

[Carrol Cox <cbcox@xxxxxxxxx>]

JKSCHW@xxxxxxx wrote:

> >  It seems to be a constant with Anglo politics that
> they will always kill you or rob you on the basis of some
> "principle", as the Irishman George Bernard Shaw once pointed out...
>
> And this is worse than robbing or killing you on the basis of no principle? --jks

Actually, yes. The amount of such random violence in the world is rather small in
comparison to the massacres in the name of principle. And in the United States *all*
the really serious violence (domestically and in U.S. foreign policy) is highly
principled. The War on Crime certainly does more physical and moral damage than crime
does.

Carrol