AC wrote:
> On 9 Sep 2005 12:53:36 -0700,
> ianparker2@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
<ianparker2@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> > You are forgetting one thing. The ideology that has replaced Communism
> > is much more dangerous. The world would have been far better off had
> > the Soviets still been in Afganistan.
>
> I don't think it's any more dangerous, just different. In reality,
despite
> some rather good TV coverage, what are the Islamists really capable of?
>
> As to Afghanistan, it is a country that has been since most ancient
times
> notoriously ungovernable. However, the US certainly didn't help by
walking
> away once the Soviets packed up and left.
>
> >
> > The Soviets never in fact attacked the US. The regime that the US
> > sup****ted in preference sure did.
>
> Well of course the Soviets never did. They and the Americans simply
fought
> proxy wars, and its those proxy wars that have come back to haunt the
US.
The Enemy Of My Enemy Is My Enemy
http://www.wa****ngtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A30333-2004Aug24.html
By Emran Qure****
Wednesday, August 25, 2004; Page C01
GOOD MUSLIM, BAD MUSLIM
America, the Cold War, and the Roots of Terror
By Mahmood Mamdani
Pantheon. 304 pp. $24
Mahmood Mamdani
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.atheism/msg/8a8cd2ec6c4e1f2d
>
>
> >
> > IQuite apart from this the ideology is still damgerous 9/11 apert.
> > Don't tell me that the decision not to strenghen the levees was not
> > based on a religious view of natural disasters. We see a completely
> > different outlook in Japan.
>
> I don't think it was based on religious views. I think it was based on
a
> very human trait, the ability to put off that which must be done. I
don't
> see any need to blame religion for the response to Katrina.
Incompetence
> seems to sum it up nicely.
>
> --
> Aaron Clausen
> mightymartianca@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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