chinton, "You can't eat religion" my Iranian friend told me a couple of weeks ago. Once a radical fundamentalist, now he only wishes dearly that the old men who abuse Iran would just fade away quietly into history. IMO it doesn't matter whether you are a Muslim, Christian, Buddhist, Shintoist, Hindu, naturalist, Sikh, Jew, LDS, or other denomination, you ultimately will come to that same conclusion.
Islamic fundamentalism has designed a great program to whip its followers into a fury, and......and....
.....and what? Okay hate the West. All right, I hate the West because they don't want to be like us- Now what do I do? Islamic fundamentalism has no rational program for future development. Bin Laden and Al Qaeda are just Verse Two ultimately of the 1979 Iranian Revolutionary fervor. Ultimately their fervor goes nowhere except to cause the deaths of millions of innocents.
Next, realistically, we need to help Afghanistan and Iraq economically before Palestine. Also the suicide bombing campaign that killed so many civilians in Israel, Hamas/Hezbollah sponsored, true, but not restrained by the Palestinian Authority- left a very bad taste in the mouths of western governments.
To help Palestine currently would be to reward fascists again. Best to wait for a new era of Palestinian leadership and then help them, give them the credit for building the first viable Palestinian State.... |
