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To: ClaireSolt

The problem with superpowers is that they want to pull all the strings, mount people against each other, and divide to rule.

The western powers created Khomeini and sent him from a Paris suburb to Teheran to topple the best ally the West had at that time. Containment policy of the Soviet Union, they said.

The Qaeda thing, put in place by the Saudis and the US, went out of leach and those who created that monster have to assume their responsibilities. Al Qaeda is using amounts of money counted not in gigas but in teras, coming from the same people who call themselves and the US administration call them “allies”.

Now you cannot stop Al Qaeda unless you eradicate their ideology which happens to be that of the Saudi Wahabi Islam. Nuke Mekka or transform it? It is your deal now. God bless the soul of General Dwight Eisenhower who warned the world from the military industrial complex.

End of History, Francis Fukuyama? may be in another dimension. Like it or not, we all got caught in this spiral called clash of civilizations. BTW civilizations or barbarisms?


26 posted on 06/05/2007 8:33:44 AM PDT by Patrick_k
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To: Patrick_k

You have taken a wide swip at quite a lot of history, and I think you are mostly wrong. To my mind it is more helpful to consider the history of the relations between Islam and the West than to castigate modern leaders too harshly. That history would predict jihad by any ascendant Islam. Rising prosperity creates rising expectations and resentments, and that probably explains our current world better than any other single factor. The income of the poorest has doubled in the last 30 years, and they only want more. In Iraq, btw, average personal income has gone from $10/mo when we invaded to $200/mo now. Talk about destabilizing! The biggest force for change is probqably the TV’s in all those homes bringin in the outside world to people who have been isolated. Not many of them will choose martyrdom over a Mustang.


27 posted on 06/05/2007 9:06:07 AM PDT by ClaireSolt (Have you have gotten mixed up in a mish-masher?)
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