Dangerous idea?

Phil Culhane pculhane at magma.ca
Sat Nov 20 18:42:02 PST 2004


Amen to that.

I wish more Americans would stop to ask why some Saudi Moslems decided to
ram some planes into some buildings...and why other Moslems around the world
cheered - rather than sending more troops, more bombs.

>From the point of view of much of the rest of the world, we (speaking for
first world North Americans as a stereotypical group now, forgive me), are
more than incredibly lucky...we're incredibly greedy! So much wealth, and
all we can focus on doing is expropriating most of what's left for
ourselves.

I often wonder how much "terrorism" would remain if all that money being
poured into the U.S. War Machine were poured into clean water, health and
education around the world - not trying to Americanize everyone, but just
using our position of incredible good fortune to help the rest of humanity
enjoy their lives, their ways.

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Subject: Re: Dangerous idea?


Doug -- I guess I have to say that if we were to resort to viruses, the
other guys would have won. I think we might spend our time better attempting
to create conditions under which the terrorist behavior is no longer
supported by those they (the terrorists) purport to champion. On the face of
it I see little difference between a beheading of some poor soul and a US
Marine blowing away a wounded Iraqi prisoner. Barbaric symptoms all.

Harrison

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