[.cnI redruM]

She regard her culture in any manner she chooses. She's suffering from what a Marxist crank would call false consciousness. In the real world, where rational people size up different societies and cultures and then choose with their feet which one is better, the bulk of the traffic crosses the Rio Grande going North; not South.

Any value-system, or culture that lacks one, that gets hold of a big enough A-Bomb can threaten anyone they want. The real $60,000.00 question, is which culture can actually rebuild something once the Strontium has worked through three or four half-lives and is no longer radioactive enough to still pose a threat.

[Ouderkirk]

America, of course, is the most glaring example of this Western malaise as manifested by its refusal to abide by international pacts and agreements or by its savage assaults on Afghanistan and Iraq. Also, let us not forget the horror film the world has been forced to watch of torture and abuse of the so-called terrorists in American gulags spread across the planet.

Abide by international pacts? Which serves who's interests?

Savage assaults on Afganistan and Iraq...savage? In who's eyes yours? American gulag's...gulags are work camps, I don't see those P.O.S.'s down there in Gitmo doing slavve like work. The only good muslim is a dead muslim