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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank
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To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (33377)10/16/2001 8:03:45 PM
From: epicure  Read Replies (1) of 82486
 
You presume the Afghani people want war. I suspect they do not. You probably presume they want Bin Laden in their country- and yet were the terrorists Afghani? no. The Afghani people are victims as much as the people who were blown up in the WTC, and this is especially true of Afghani women- virtual prisoners in their houses. You do not care about the "enemy" because you have convinced yourself you know who the enemy is and that "they" want war.

It probably makes you feel better to demonize the Afghanis.

And those Muslims cheering? Were you under the impression they were in Afghanistan?

I suggest that you have no clue who the enemy is and that you have no conception of how little power the average Afghan citizens have. You compare a dictatorial theocracy (and I call it this loosely because their "government" really isn't what you or I would consider a real government) kept in power by repression with the US! " Is the US government representative of Americans?" In case you have forgotten, our representative are putatively elected by us. The Afghans had there "representatives" foisted upon them by force and fatigue- after they had been pounded into the ground for years, because they were a pawn in the USSR/US game of world chess. Perhaps you need to do a little research on Afghanistan, so that you can talk about it intelligently.
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