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Politics : America Under Siege: The End of Innocence -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: 10K a day who wrote (8364)	10/23/2001 10:38:57 AM
From: William B. Kohn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 27666

And how will you get those tools past their leaders? And how will you get them to look at the site of enlightenment rather than the sites which aggrivate the situation. If you read Arabic, you wouldn't be so keen on giving them internet access. You act as if education can be accomplished in a matter of minutes. It would take generations. And using your approach how many WTC's would occur during those generations, even if you could overcome the governmental, political, and religious roadblocks. I assume from your name that you are a female. During the period you are throwing flowers, love, and technology at them, they are working hard to take away your right to choose how to believe, choice, education, livelyhood, and voice. Almost everything you cherish would be eliminated by those whom you believe you can talk to. If people adopted your strategy, I'd be dead (as a Jew, they'd kill me in a New York Minute), but you'd have to suffer the consequences of your actions as would your children for thousands of years. Bill

To: 10K a day who wrote (8364)	10/26/2001 12:42:51 AM
From: Thomas M.	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 27666

Well said, Impristine. William (clown that he is) probably is not aware of the Al-Jazeera, the satellite TV network started in Qatar a few years ago. ------------------------------------------------------------------- cbsnews.com Every single Arab country has complained to Qatar about Al-Jazeera. Some have even recalled their ambassadors and closed down its bureaus. The Palestinians briefly shut down the one in Ramallah a few weeks ago. But Qatar's foreign minister thinks Al-Jazeera is doing something good: "We are giving the people around us, in the Arab world, something which they need." "Democracy started. Either the leaders like it or they don't like it. Either you open the door or they break the door. It's a matter of time, in my opinion." Are they afraid of you, the Arab governments? Says Al-Qasim: "They are not afraid of Al-Jazeera. They are terrified by Al-Jazeera and the programs broadcast by Al-Jazeera, because they think that free media means democracy." ----------------------------------------------------------------- So, what is the American response to this? Yippee, freedom of press, democracy and all sorts of things America loves, right? Wrong! The Clinton and Bush administrations have been trying to hold it back. ------------------------------------------------------------------ Al-Jazeera is, naturally, despised and feared by the dictatorships of the region, particularly because of its frank exposures of their human rights records. The U.S. has joined their ranks. BBC reports that "The U.S. is not the first to feel aggrieved by al-Jazeera coverage, which has in the past provoked anger from Algeria, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Egypt for giving airtime to political dissidents." The Emir of Qatar confirmed that "Washington has asked Qatar to rein in the influential and editorially independent Arabic al-Jazeera television station," BBC reported. The Emir, who also chairs the Organization of Islamic Conference that includes 56 countries, informed the press in Washington that Secretary of State Powell had pressured him to rein in Al-Jazeera: to "persuade Al-Jazeera to tone down its coverage," Al-Jazeera reports. Asked about the reports of censorship, the Emir said: "This is true. We heard from the U.S. administration, and also from the previous U.S. administration" (BBC, October 4, 2001, citing Reuters). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Why? Because these corrupt and brutal regimes in the Middle East are our allies (or should I say "tools"). We can't have the Middle Eastern rabble knowing all the ugly facts about the corrupt regimes they live under. Tom