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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hi, Artur</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>All governments "selfishly" try to act in their own
economic</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>best interests, and tare sometimes short-sighted in
that </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>area, and he U.S. is no different. I suppose
the</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>most reasonable course would be something between
the</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>generosity which the U.S. has already extended
to many </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>countries being extended to the Arab world, and a
path of </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>defending itself and pursuing justice when
attacked. I suppose</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>that is what the U. S. government thinks it is
pursuing now in</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Afghanistan. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Actually pursuing </FONT><FONT face=Arial
size=2>economic gain is often easier on the folks affected than pursuing
</FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2>religious zealotry. The unemployed folks of
both genders would in Afghanistan would certainly eat better if
employed </FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2>at jobs having to </FONT><FONT
face=Arial size=2>do with a new oil pipeline put in by some oil company,
than they do now. When people stop making war or terrorism to pursue
money, sometimes that's good, or at least it's the lesser of the 2 evils.
Terrorists in the mid-East might do themsleves and the world a
favor </FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2>by facing the fact that if commercial
airlines suffer because people are afraid to fly, and so airlines buy less oil,
that doesn't help the mid-East economies very much, nor does it take
care of the interests of the wealthy folks who are funding the
terrorists with their oil profits. .</FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Perhaps one solution to this whole issue is for
everyone to</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>use less and less oil and to search high and
low for alternative</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>fuels.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Although I like the ideas of love and peace, I am
not one myself to think that Hitler, or similar personalities, should be left to
keep their programs going, because all problems can be solved through peace
and love, or because some Germans wouldn't have liked it if we had taken out
Hitler, so they might have hated the U.S. If we had only gone
after Hitler and others in control of and directly responsible for the mass
murders, we might have saved a lot of lives of young soldiers--, German,
American, and from other countries too. If we </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>would have needed a small cover war to cover it up
while we searched them out, it would have killed far fewer people than the WWII
did have.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Julie . </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
<DIV
style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A href="mailto:artsilva@mail.eunet.pt" title=artsilva@mail.eunet.pt>Artur F.
Silva</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A
href="mailto:OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU"
title=OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU>OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, October 16, 2001 11:45
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: 1998 retired Lt. Col. (Dr.
Robert Bowman) letter</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>At 22:25 12-10-2001, Julie Hotard wrote:<BR><BR>Thanks, Julie.
I have printed your message and only now I had the <BR>oportunity to read it.
And yes, the words of the American President <BR>of the Institute for Space
and Security Studies are worth reading.<BR><BR>They are so clear that I wonder
why they are not understood by the<BR>American Government and the war pundits.
Is it that the economical <BR>interests they are affiliated to prevent them to
understand? Or is it that<BR>they still live in an old (medieval?) paradigm -
like the one of the<BR>talibans - and are not aware of it? Or
both?<BR> <BR>Anyhow, I am sending above again the parts that I found
more interesting.<BR>Those parts are also the ones that, in my opinion, are
more related to a <BR>very interesting point that I found in the link Chris
sent to us (see next <BR>post)<BR><BR><BR>Artur<BR>----<BR><BR>
<BLOCKQUOTE cite type="cite"><FONT face=arial size=2>The Long and Short of
Terrorism and Security<BR><BR>by Dr. Robert M. Bowman, Lt. Col., USAF,
ret.<BR><BR>In 1998, I said that if the lies about the causes of terrorism
go<BR>unchallenged, then the terror war now unleashed will likely
continue<BR>until it destroys us. We are not the target of terrorists
because we<BR>practice freedom, democracy, and human rights, but because our
<BR>government denies these to people in the Third World whose <BR>resources
are coveted by our multinational corporations.</BLOCKQUOTE><BR>
<BLOCKQUOTE cite type="cite">(...) all my military experience <BR>and
knowledge tells me that retaliation hasn't rid us of the problem <BR>in the
past, and won't this time. If retaliation worked, Israelis would be <BR>the
world's most secure people.</BLOCKQUOTE><BR>
<BLOCKQUOTE cite type="cite"> (...) The long-term solution is to stop
making new terrorists and render <BR>current ones impotent.<BR><BR>Only one
thing has ever ended a terrorist campaign -- denying the<BR>terrorist
organization the support of the larger community it<BR>represents. And the
only way to do that is to listen to and alleviate<BR>the legitimate
grievances of the people.<BR><BR>A massive military retaliation causing the
deaths of thousands of Arabs is <BR>the worst possible thing we could do. It
would only guarantee an endless <BR>supply of fresh terrorists for decades
to come. We can have security, or we<BR>can have revenge. We cannot have
both.<BR><BR>If indeed we can prove the guilt of Osama bin Laden or others,
we should <BR>indict them as common criminals. This would be supported
by the vast <BR>majority of the world's Muslims
(..)</FONT></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><BR><BR>----<BR><BR></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>