Comments for Ecce Homo—Saddam Hussein at http://www.pacificfreepress.com , comment 1 to 2 out of 2 comments http://www.pacificfreepress.com Tue, 02 Dec 2008 15:00:58 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://www.pacificfreepress.com/news/1/788-ecce-homosaddam-hussein.html#comment-936 To the neo-con think tank gurus surrounding George Bush, the link between 9/11 and Iraq was more than just moral and emotive, a reflexive desire to assuage hurt and national humiliation by inflicting greater hurt and humiliation upon others (people who just happened to occuply a strategic geopolitical region rich with oil). The link between 9/11 and the shock & awe invasion of Iraq was also a half baked stab at deterrence: somebody blind side me, I'll start kicking asses and taking names. As Rummy noted, sweep it all up, related or not. Bring it on. This is, of course, the mentality of the schoolyard bully, like an adolescent frontier gunslinger who believes deep in his gut that garnering a reputation for having an itchy trigger finger will make folks think twice about fronting The Man in broad daylight, or taking pot shots from afar. An eye for an eye was a formula for proportionate justice. These were words of limitation. No longer a life, or a limb, or both eyes for an eye. Never more than one eye for an eye. Turning the other cheek was a metaphor for creative, nonviolent response to violent injustice. Prevent future wrongs through self restraint, example, if need be by restraining the wrongdoer. Little George's mad crusade into Mesopotamia as a payback for 9/11 made a mockery of Judeo-Christian morality between individuals. It was also a dangerous and counter-productive perversion of deterrence theory, as applied to nation states and nongovernmental entities like al Queda. Just the sort of thing that can get us all bushwhacked some day big time, unless we hurry up and turn this around. - a guest Thu, 25 Jan 2007 00:00:14 +0100 http://www.pacificfreepress.com/news/1/788-ecce-homosaddam-hussein.html#comment-935 There is no such thing. This is one of the most absurd canards to appear in the post-World War II period. Judaic morality calls for an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth; Christian morality directs you to turn the other cheek. Judaic morality calls for revenge; Christian morality condemns it. No difference can be simpler or easier to understand. So why does this absurd phrase get endlessly repeated? - a guest Wed, 24 Jan 2007 22:02:34 +0100