Press Coverage -John Reid- Secretary of State for Defence - on the ‘war against evil’ in the Daily Express:
“Britain is waging a ‘war against evil’ - John Reid in an interview with the Daily Express expounded the following views:
“This is a war against evil, make no mistake,” he said. “Evil is the same, whether it’s dressed in Nazi uniforms, the supposed socialists of the Red Brigades and so on, or the IRA in Northern Ireland.” { heh, and the same if it’s a nation-state..}
“The terrorists want to commit mass extermination. And if they can get their hands on the means to do it, they will. These people want to destroy the state of Israel. They want to destroy every Jew they can, and every non-Muslim they can.”
hmm now that sounds a bit funny to me -not the intentions of the terrorist to kill non-muslims -that seems to be very clear - but its not like any ‘non-muslims’ haven’t been ‘destroyed’ as well.. [And what bloody difference does it make who anyone is trying to kill. surely the point is that killing anyone is 'not nice' to say the least. !! ] Oh but maybe that wasn’t their aim - those guys just ‘got’ in the way. Oh right, so that makes it all ‘fine’ then - nothing to get ‘het up’ about. Really! this kind of ‘partisan’ thinking is very irritating - ( and you see it everywhere you go. people appear to be only bothered about their particular little tribe. when will wake up and smell the coffee and realize its this kind of ‘tribalism’ and clicqueyness that causes so much trouble?) where is the human rights discourse? - the right of ALL humans to life - regardless of nationality, ethnicity, race, religion, football club, goth or any other line of division you can think up ( and boy are there lots!) Now that to me would be a sophisticated, democratic, liberal, fair and enlightened approach. Anything else smacks of exactly the kind of faulty and deadly thinking ‘terrrorists’ display.
“These evil terrorists are intent on gaining the technology of mass destruction,” he added.
“And the international nature of this extremist, violent fundamentalism adds up to a bigger terrorist threat than we have ever faced before.”
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its funny how the discourse of ‘evil’ is still used even in an allegedly ’scientific’ and non-religious way. What is evil but a ‘religious’ concept - bound up with predetermination and all sorts of other silly ideas. Hah . Anyhow, the point is its funny how this bloke says ‘all evil is the same’ replace evil and say stick in something like ‘all killing is the same- its wrong’ and voila! you have a very good point indeed. maybe mr. reid needs to be a bit more reflexive as he clearly doesn’t seem to see the irony in what he’s saying.
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