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Politics : DON'T START THE WAR

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To: Raymond Duray who wrote (24465)	5/29/2003 8:31:37 PM
From: LPS5	Read Replies (1) of 25898

The distinction between U.S.imperialism and Bin Laden's guerrilla resistance is a matter of scale, not of passion. Well, that's one way of looking at it - not only that scale is the issue (there's no definition of imperialism that so qualifies it), but that Bin Laden's efforts are "resisting" anything in particular. Another way is that the U.S. is resisting the theocratic imperialism of a former ally. Still another is that all human beings are competitive, vicious animals...whether driven by the enticements of material wealth or superstition...and that collisions of this sort are inevitable. How many ways of looking at this same question do you think there are under Sharia? ;-) The U.S. government is orders-of-magnitude more effective at terrorizing...populations than Bin Laden could ever hope to be. Even though that's an opinion stated as fact - and a viewpoint easily adopted tens or hundreds of miles away from anything that would ever be considered a probable terrorist target - I tend to agree. And at this juncture, even though there's no absolute stoppage of those who'd attack civilians here at home, I think that's something to be somewhat thankful for. LPS5

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