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Politics : Piffer Thread on Political Rantings and Ravings -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: HG who wrote (1273)	9/18/2001 3:52:47 PM
From: Original Mad Dog	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14610

I actually don't buy the notion that they are freedom fighters when they do this. They are thugs. We knew they were thugs when we trained them back in the 1980's. It was very short sighted of us. I can only hope that the vision of our leaders now is a both longer term and broader in perspective. I am not at all sure that is the case; it is just my hope. I seem to remember during the primary campaign that some college reporter asked the candidates questions about who the world leaders were -- a sort of pop quiz of current events. And while my memory of the incident is a bit fuzzy, wasn't it Pakistan's leader that Bush was unaware of? I actually do not advocate invading countries as a first resort. I do advocate treating this as thuggery, as wrong in a morally absolute (not relative) sense, and hitting hard against any country that does not cooperate in an international attempt to root out this sort of criminality. I wouldn't mind seeing a large dose of foreign aid and education resources thrown in too, but the difficulty there is that, truth be told, the men who run many of these countries are MCP's of the rankest and foulest odor. They despise real education, because it threatens them. That is what the world is up against, and must rebel against despite its religious outergarments.