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To: KonKilo who wrote (46686)	1/24/2008 12:16:35 PM
From: cnyndwllr	Read Replies (3) of 541971

Whiffle, re: "Bill Maher was fired from ABC for saying that the 9/11 suicide pilots were brave. The fact that they were, by definition, brave, never entered into the rationale. Just as there is a range of unthinkable thought, so too is there a range of inutterable utterances." When the "enemy" does such things we characterize their acts as insane, brainwashed, and even cowardly. When "our" guys do those things we pin medals on their widows and erect monuments to their memory. If you haven't seen Charlie Wilson's war I highly recommend it. The movie draws some pretty obvious parallels between the Russian experience in Afghanistan and our current experiences in the Middle East. In some parts of the movie the outright admiration expressed for the rat terrier determination of the Afghan and Arab fighters, partly inspired by radical Islamic beliefs, highlights the disparity between how we value such things in our "allies." There was a great History Channel program playing that provided an even better account of the real Charlie Wilson and the bombshell southern belle who was the brains, and body, behind it. Ed

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