X-Message-Number: 19357
Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2002 22:18:36 -0700
From: James Swayze <>
Subject: Ok, it's finally time for my two cents [part three]
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David wrote:
"The speech was basically telling the Palestinians that they have to
democratically select a knew leader, as long as it's one that is acceptable
to the Bush Regime. Sounds like Afganistan, and a few other places
recently...
Since it is the declared policy of the Bush Regime to get rid of the
current leader of Irag, and there is no way that this is going to be
supported by the Arab states, while the Palestinians are being tortured and
killed (with full support of the Bush Regime), you can only wonder whether
there is any judgement being exercised by the key figures in the U.S.
government at all."
David, dear friend, if you really think the Palestinians deserve any slack you
should read Howard Bloom's "The Lucifer Principle" especially the paragraph
found here.
http://www.HowardBloom.net/islam.htm
**
" "Man's greatest good fortune is to chase and defeat his enemy, seize his
total possessions,
leave his married women weeping and wailing, ride his gelding (and) use the
bodies of his
women as a nightshirt and support." Genghis Khan
"He butchered three of them with an ax and decapitated them. In other words,
instead of
using a gun to kill them he took a hatchet to chop their heads off. He
struggled face to face
with one of them, and throwing down his ax managed to break his neck and
devour his flesh in
front of his comrades. ...I ...award him the Medal of the Republic." General
Mustafa Tlas, Syria's
Minister of Defense praising a hero of the 1973 war with Israel before the
Syrian National
Assembly
"Appeasing of governments which revel in slaughter is an invitation to
worldwide catastrophe."
Fang Lizhi "
Two thousand three hundred years ago a Greek who even his fellow Greeks called a
barbarian
conquered the entire Persian Empire. His name was Alexander the Great.
The whole thing was as unlikely as the Vietnamese turning around and conquering
the U.S. But it
happened. In fact, in history it happens over and over again.
It happened in 1870 when the French were forced to fight a country which just a
few years earlier had
been a disorganized clutter of rag-tag mini-states ruled by comic opera princes.
The land of Napoleon
was rated by every armchair general as the mightiest military force on the
Continent. But France lost. Its
army was chopped up like ground round. Its glorious capital, Paris, faced the
humiliation of a foreign
army marching down its streets. The upstart nation that had brought France to
its knees was... Germany.
An equally surprising fate occurred to England when it trained its guns on the
superpowers of its day in
two world wars. When the smoke had cleared, two backward nations of
Johnny-come-latelies ended up
dominating the world. These countries, whose inhabitants had usually been
regarded as just one small
step above the primitive, were The United States and Russia.
The moral is simple. Never forget the pecking order's surprises. Today's
superpower is tomorrow's
conquered state. Yesterday's overlooked mob is often the ruler of tomorrow.
Never underestimate the
third world. Never be complacent about barbarians.
Some readers will be outraged by my presumption. How dare I regard any
group as barbaric. What appalling ethnocentrism! There are no barbarians.
There are simply cultures we haven't taken the time to understand. Cultures to
whom we haven't given sufficient aid. Cultures in need of development.
Beneath the skin, all men and women are the same. They have the same
needs, the same emotions, and the same ideals. If you simply took those folks
you speak of so contemptuously out for a cup of coffee, you would discover
that they are just like you and me.
But there are barbarians--people whose cultures glorify the act of murder, and
elevate violence to a holy deed. These cultures portray the extinction of other
human beings as a validation of manliness, a heroic gesture in the name of
truth, or simply a good way to get ahead in the world. " [continued]
**
After I read this article I had to wonder do we and our leadership have the
intestinal fortitude to meet the enemy even on equal ground. What do you do with
governments and countries made of people that revere only brutality and are
from birth sworn to your destruction... Coddle them?
Have no delusions that peace can be made with people that teach their young to
hate us and all that our freedom, free market and democracy have brought us.
These are the mother of all luddites! They won't be happy, their holy book will
not allow them to be so, until everyone is an ignorant sheep herder on bended
knee to Allah.
The Palestinians do not deserve a state of their own on land that never belonged
to them in the first place. Let's face it the Romans never managed to push ALL
the Jews out of Israel but the remainders were pushed aside by the Moslems.
Palestinians come from Jordan. Even if Jordan is an ally we should make them
handle what is really their problem rather than take anything away from the
Israelites.
No one that indiscriminantly kills innocent children, including their own
through dysfunctional teaching, deserve validation of their terrorist acts by
giving them land. Everyone should read Howard Bloom's article at the url above.
For the record I have nothing against any race of people anywhere. I love all
peoples and hope for a truly peaceful world where we all enjoy the benefits of
technology and a healthy Earth. I do have plenty against religions that teach
violence including the one I was brought up with. It goes without saying that
those that preach such religions and beliefs deserve my disdain.
James
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