Editorial: Columbia crash (From ArabNews)

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[FReethesheeples]

Good for Arab News!

[Jeff Chandler]

This is quite a surprise, considering the source.

[Movemout]

I was expecting to read inflammatory rhetoric. It is a pleasant surprise to, instead, read a thoughtful commentary.

[CWOJackson]

"The immediate lesson remains, however, that this is a tragedy for everyone, not just the United States, India and Israel. We have all lost in this disaster."

Thank you Arab News.

[Brytani]

I'm shocked to read this. I figured they would be dancing in joy at another tragedy to befall the US.

Thank You Arab News for proving me wrong.

[ZULU]

A thoughtful and considerate response. Not all Arabs are cut from the same mold. Like Americans, each nation is made of individuals.

This spacecraft was actually made in 1981??? I think there should be some limit to the lifetime of ANY aircraft - commercial or space-research. Maybe at twenty years, each aircraft should be destroyed, it' components processed and recycled into new, updated vehicles.

The sole consolations in this tragedy is that it happened so fast, its unlikely any of the victims knew what was occurring, and they died doing something they enjoyed. Now, there are seven more angels before God's Throne, and may their families find peace in God's loving Grace.

[Russell Scott]

My only comment on this subject is a question: is the International Space Station a modern Tower of Babel? I hope President Bush understands that God hates globalism. Any attempts to continue pushing that agenda will be met with opposition from Heaven. Especially when it involves compromising American security, or using the American people's money, to curry favor (bribe) with our phony friends in the U.N., for the sake of a deceptive new world order.

[fella]

What? No danceinng in the streets? Perhaps they have learned that doig such things tends to tick us off.

[petuniasevan]

This spacecraft was actually made in 1981???

Well, actually it was first LAUNCHED in April 1981 with only a 2-man crew (Young/Crippen) for a 2-day test mission.

[Teacher317]

It was completed in 1979, and first ventured into space in 1981.

[joyful1]

Brilliant strategy on their part. Wonder what's going on behind closed doors. Boy is America stupid.

[Teacher317]

Iraqis Call Shuttle Disaster God's Vengeance

Fewer voices show their joy at our losses nowadays. Their media were 'educated' after the videos of the street-revelers got out and caused an uproar.

[AppyPappy]

I hope President Bush understands that God hates globalism. Any attempts to continue pushing that agenda will be met with opposition from Heaven.

Where was God when NAFTA was passed? I guess He supported it.

[Teacher317]

Go to the editorials on that site... they're mostly from Americans. I think this is a nice website that helps sympathetic Americans put a more marketable face on Arabs for our consumption.

The top 9-11 editorial comment is from "Bob, Florida" who says that while we pray for those lost in 9-11, we must also pray for the many thousands more Iraqi innocents who will be killed if the US invades.

[Teacher317]

I hope President Bush understands that God hates globalism.

Chapter and verse?

[E Rocc]

A thoughtful and considerate response. Not all Arabs are cut from the same mold.

As it turns out, except for some stupid comments from Iraq the responses from the Arab world have been similar to this. Arafat issued a brief statement of condolence to both America and Israel. Iraq was to be expected, but they will say such garbage for different reasons: they are ruled by a nutcase who thinks that way and has made opinions different from his illegal.

There were some here yesterday whose apparent first reaction to this tragedy was that they figured the Arabs (particularly the Palestinians) would be happy. I place them in the same category as the lefties whose first thought was that it would benefit Bush.

-Eric

[Walkin Man]

Genesis 11


The Tower of Babel

1 Now the whole earth had one language and one speech. 2 And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar, and they dwelt there. 3 Then they said to one another, "Come, let us make bricks and bake them thoroughly." They had brick for stone, and they had asphalt for mortar. 4 And they said, "Come, let us build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top is in the heavens; let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered abroad over the face of the whole earth."
5 But the LORD came down to see the city and the tower which the sons of men had built. 6 And the LORD said, "Indeed the people are one and they all have one language, and this is what they begin to do; now nothing that they propose to do will be withheld from them. 7 Come, let Us go down and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another's speech." 8 So the LORD scattered them abroad from there over the face of all the earth, and they ceased building the city. 9 Therefore its name is called Babel, because there the LORD confused the language of all the earth; and from there the LORD scattered them abroad over the face of all the earth.

[Teacher317]

6 And the LORD said, "Indeed the people are one and they all have one language, and this is what they begin to do; now nothing that they propose to do will be withheld from them. 7 Come, let Us go down and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another's speech."

So God prefers confusion, division, inefficiency, misunderstandings, and the results thereof? Interesting. Was there any reason given as to why God felt this way, other than he didn't like tall buildings? (And if that is the case why were all of the European cathedrals built with spires reaching to the heavens?)

[ZULU]

"I place them in the same category as the lefties whose first thought was that it would benefit Bush."

Just WAIT. The leftists will no doubt try to blame this on Bush's budget, saying something really stupid - like they always do, along the lines of - he didn't allocate enough money for NASA programs. Expect this from that idiot Pellosi, or her twin Hillary.