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To: Jerome who wrote (52944)	9/23/2001 11:24:42 PM
From: StanX Long	Respond to of 70976

What I find amazing is that the US has the wealth, the technology, the military authority, the influence and the best strategic thinkers in the world and yet we muddle through from one international crises to the next one. This is really not too hard for me to understand. During my time reading philosophies many things stuck in my head. I find that most people think that others will have similar levels of morality as themselves. When we find this to be not true, we will move somewhere else, until we are comfortable with our surroundings. Now I find my morality is the general morality around me. Also This is to say, if I parked my car in a new neighborhood, I might think, “I had better lock the car to prevent it from being stolen”. This is based on my own morality judgment, saying, “I think I could be in a position some day to steel an unlocked car if it was a dire need for my family’s personal safety”. Since the steeling of unlocked car under extreme situations is conceivable to myself, I accept others may to want to steel an unlocked car. Most people build an expectation of other people’s most likely morality based on their own personal morality. Most American’s personal morality would never conceive committing suicide or acting like Bin Ladden. So unless we are willing to think like our enemies, we cannot be expected to anticipate their intentions and we react to their actions. This is re-active and not pro-active. Just a thought. :0) Stan

To: Jerome who wrote (52944)	9/23/2001 11:45:27 PM
From: Zeev Hed	Respond to of 70976

Jerome, but you see, the US has nothing to do with the the colonial powers division and reassemblage Africa, Asia and the Middle East. Actually, if you look at the region from an historical point of view, these countries should be thankful to Theodore Herzel, the founder of modern liberation movements in 1880, and his approach was not terrorism, but persuasion of the colonial powers to peacefully grant National revival to Jews in Palestine (then a backward part of the Ottoman Empire). That movements started the national liberation movement in the rest of colonized world. How come Ossama bin Ladin and the el qeida chose New York and not London, Paris, Amsterdam, Madrid and Bruxelles, the seats of the former colonial powers? Zeev

To: Jerome who wrote (52944)	9/24/2001 12:11:24 AM
From: Mike M	Respond to of 70976

What I find amazing is that the US has the wealth, the technology, the military authority, the influence and the best strategic thinkers in the world and yet we muddle through from one international crises to the next one. Interesting comment. Considering that we somehow believe we are morally charged with righting the wrongs of the world what would you expect?....More to the point, what exactly do you suggest the US should be doing (or not doing) given that the US has the wealth, the technology, the military authority(is this a euphemism for power?)...etc.? Criticism is so damned easy. Particularly when it is without accountability. There have been too many Presidents with too many agendas for me to defend all American foreign policy but our actions only get us to this point because there are people with values that we cannot assimilate or account for who have determined that the US is not too powerful to challenge. We will see how wise that was.