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Politics : DON'T START THE WAR

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To: Raymond Duray who wrote (24465)	5/27/2003 10:45:36 PM
From: Hawkmoon	Read Replies (4) of 25898

The distinction between U.S.imperialism and Bin Laden's guerrilla resistance is a matter of scale, not of passion. Oh... I thought it was the political and economic agenda.. The only thing imperialistic about the US is it's belief that the only form of truly legitimate government is one that is accountable to its people through a democratic vote. Bin Laden wished to collect power to himself and select religious leaders in order to dictate what form of government people would live under.. the law of Sharia.. Opposing him was to oppose Allah.... and to be counted as an infidel. The US can HARDLY be accused of being an imperialistic power in the traditional sense of historical experience. It has been the United States that has forced the break-up of the colonial powers and the granting of independence to their former possessions. Were we an imperial power, we would have colonized all of Europe and Japan after the war.. In fact, the last imperialistic war the US fought was the Spanish-American war, where we sought to defeat and seize Spain's possessions in the Caribbean and the Philipines. Hawk

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