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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lane3 who wrote (30368)	10/1/2001 2:41:22 AM
From: average joe	Respond to of 82486

I thought The Washington Post article was trying to present an excuse for the attack, until the last paragraph. "This logic must also be rejected. It leads us into the infernal and morally vacuous exercise of assigning blame -- a process of tit-for-tat that leads, ad infinitum, into the past and holds the potential for disastrous consequences in the future if the spiral is unbroken." If they could just sit down with the Irish or the Serbs they might be better able to leave their ancient animosities behind. I heard a story about old Afghan men carrying munitions ten miles to the front line during the Russian occupation. They would leave late at night in bare feet thru snow and rough terrain to deliver their cargo and walk back home. These people are born tough into conditions that we would find desperate and they hate the west. Kill Laden and you make him a hero. If he is captured and put on trial the whole Arab world will be offended and may collapse Saudi Arabia which seems to generate the most devout terrorists. The only solution is for the Sheikhs and clerics to control internal radical elements and I think one way is via westernization of their living standards to soften them up. The Taleban views the U.S. entertainment industry as the biggest threat to their control and they're right.