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Politics : Formerly About Applied Materials
AMAT 226.05+1.3%Nov 14 9:30 AM EST
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To: Jacob Snyder who wrote (52180)9/15/2001 3:39:20 AM
From: Sam Citron  Read Replies (1) of 70976
 
We can only lead by example

That is certainly a valid point of view. But I wonder whether the limited slice of America that they might have encountered, if any, really corresponds to the ideals you have mentioned of "equality of men and women, equality for all races, religious tolerance and the rule of law".

When I got to Afghanistan in the sixties, the driver of the van who had agreed to transport us from Istanbul to New Delhi, an American by the name of Gary, decided instead to stay in Herat, Afghanistan to "have the van repaired". I later learned that repairing the van meant having the door lined with hashish and driving it back to Germany. In Kabul, the most conspicuous westerners were the morphine addicts shooting up in the doorways of fleabag hotels not far from the Intercontinental. For them Kabul's main draw was the fact that they could buy morphine over the counter at any drugstore. They were not exactly the best ambassadors of western values. I left as soon as I could find a bus going toward Peshawar.

So the drug addicts and hippies came through Afghanistan in the sixties followed by the Russian soldiers in the seventies. So much for western role models.

I don't know if there are many satellite dishes in Afghanistan these days but I wonder how many Madison Avenue ad execs we will need to change their image of the west?

Thanks for that critique of the Tom Friedman editorial. It's spot on.

Sam
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