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To: TomGuy
One would think that, with all the $millions in foreign aid from the UN, from other Arab countries, from Euros, from US taxpayers, that the Pali governing body could find some way to provide schooling.

HAHAHAHAHA!

No I'm not laughing at you, you are absolutely right. But they don't think that way. These kinds of topics are the only place where cultural relativism has a valid point. There was an article posted recently about the Bazaar, the point of it was that in the Bazaar when the sellers knows you really really want to buy something, the price goes way up. Only if you reject the offer to buy it and sincerely express a need not to have it will you get it for a good price.

The point here is that, with all that aid AND other ways to get freebies, they don't have to sell anything. Everyone else is paying for nothing.

Of course, the cultural relativists won't look at it this way. They won't implement cultural relativism in foreign diplomacy - in those cases claims of oppression and poverty and victimhood trump. But the fact is giving in return for nothing results in a complete lack of accountability that you ask for, and so it should be no surprise that things are the way they are.

The West has to give up on this nonsense. Give them food and medicine if they need it, because that's the humanitarian thing to do, but until they give something they should get nothing else.

11 posted on 10/14/2006 1:58:58 PM PDT by monkeyshine
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To: monkeyshine

When I first read that article, I saw a little ray of hope. I thought maybe those Palis who would get arrested so they could get an education might come away with a better attitude than the jihadist suicide bomber types.

Maybe, they will return with a different attitude.

[It isn't much, it is the the best ray we've seen from that cesspool where the Palis are.]


12 posted on 10/14/2006 2:15:32 PM PDT by TomGuy
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