Hi Kastel,
Welcome to the controversy on this holiday weekend. The markets are not open, and the bulls are nowhere to be seen on this thread, no ribs to chew on, and so …
<<'Truly scary. But, you know, even they may have a legitimate reason'
at the risk of sounding moralistic I am truly surprised at your supposition>>
Please do not be surprised. By prefacing it with “truly scary”, I have in fact passed my moral judgment on the rights and wrongs of the situation. For the majority to pick on the minority, especially when there is no cause other than their beliefs, is simply, as you say, wrong.
The problem expands to the inevitable next level … and the question must be asked “why?”
I appreciate the Star Trek TV program very much, especially about going where none has gone before, and about the principle of non-interference.
Skip along to … I am reminded of a weird Business Law case I confronted while I went to undergraduate:
Mr. A driving a beat up GM car crosses a railway crossing. The car engine dies. Mr. A gets out, to escape an on coming train. Mr. B is in a telephone booth making a call. The train crashes into the GM car, bounces it crashing into the phone booth, killing Mr. B. Legal fights. Who ends up paying for the damages because of wrongs?
Skip along … to the school shootings in the US. Who is guilty of the death of students?
In the US scheme of things, either the kid holding the gun, and or the school for letting the gun on to school property. Never the irresponsible parents allowing the gun to fall into the hands of immature teenagers.
Skip along … to Afghanistan. The US and Pakistan armed the local folks, to over-throw their own government and make trouble for the Russians. Mission accomplished, and the geopolitical children are left to their own devices, with no law, no society, no principles, and worse, no leverage points whereby their future actions can be effectively influenced.
Skip along … to Iraq. Had the US succeeded in over throwing Saddam, what would really have ended up happening in that country, and would it really be better?
Skip along … to Serbia …
Then … to Cambodia …
Now, skip back to my business law case … the party, guilty or not, that ended up paying, is …
Surprise, the phone company, as they should have known better to not put the phone booth so close to the railroad track.
Of course, in those days, the phone company was rich and deep pocketed.
By adopting this logic, as the Americans are happy to adopt when appropriate, China would be guilty if Iraq got to learn how to make the bomb from China, and same with Germany, etc. … but then why did China have to learn how to make the bomb in the first place, well …
So, yes, you are right, the Afghanis are wrong, absolutely, for singling out any minority group, to pick on in any fashion. Question, who gave these geopolitical children the means to do what they are doing?
… and while we are at it, who is wrong in the Middle East?
So, rather than passing judgment on right and wrong, which clouds the picture for solutions, I prefer to say “just is, and now what can be done?”
On this note, I am willing to concede that I am pushing the edge of the envelop of acceptability and hence forth adopt a more overtly politically correct but less pragmatic posture:0)
Chugs, Jay |
