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To: Andy Thomas who wrote (8270)	11/9/2001 10:34:09 AM
From: Thomas M.	Respond to of 23908

That 's the only logical explanation I have heard in the 20 years since. Can you come up with another explanation that makes sense? Tom

To: Andy Thomas who wrote (8270)	11/9/2001 12:29:03 PM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 23908

I bet you wanna know why the Russkies (with a coupla Israeli and French associates) pulled that dirty 911 trick on you, eh? Well, here's a clue... FRANKENSTEINS TAUGHT A LESSON By Denis Dragunsky Who would have thought that a pawn could successfully make it across the chess board to become a queen and then put out the eye of the grand master? So the 21th century has come at last. We have looked into its fuming mouth out of the corner of our eye. We've had enough of it. It makes us sick with horror. Meanwhile the new age has just licked its parched lips. Progressive mankind is rushing about, scared not so much of the possibility of future explosions, as of the necessity to accept some new concept of the world. It's time to change the customary pattern of thinking. That is incredibly difficult. It's much more comfortable to rock in the traditional hammock of containment and counterbalance - both real and imaginary. Israel contains Arab regimes while the Palestine Liberation Organization contains Israel - just in case. Ahmad Shah Massoud contained the Talibs, while Osama bin Laden opposed him. This way nobody could defeat anyone finally and completely. Not very long ago the world was perceived as a Big Chess Board meant not so much for playing a match as for compositions. Who would have thought that a pawn could successfully make it across the chess board to become a queen and put out the eye of a grand master? The world's Frankensteins have been taught a lesson. Dudayev did not make himself either. And we, out of inertia, are still trying to keep our balance. On the one hand, we are going to declare a ruthless war on terrorism. On the other hand, we call for soberness and containment; we warn against hasty measures which would cast a shadow on democracy, freedom and respect for human rights. I wonder why Americans made so many films about disasters. They seemed to court disaster in the big Hollywood way. Americans unconsciously have repented for their prosperity, world leadership, bragging, messianism and certainly gendarmism. Gendarmes are really a nuisance. Only their complete absence, i.e., mayhem, could be worse. America tried to cope with the situation. But America made a lot of blunders, committing one outrage after another and waiting for punishment. It made films about an attack on New York city or about Godzilla - the avenger of the Third World. Extending immigration quotas, insistence on political correctness, aggressively defending human rights and worshipping individuality were also acts of repentance. For it is said in the Scripture: "There is no Greek or Jew... barbarian, Scythian..." It is a very religious nation, earnestly believing and trusting in God. This faith goes hand-in-hand with arrogance, self-admiration, a desire to lecture and condemn. All this in one head on brawny shoulders. If America were not a Christian nation, the world would have been writhing under its heel long ago. And there would have been no terrorist act. But then it would not be America, but rather some fifth or eighteenth Reich. Instead of challenging Dantes to a duel after receiving an anonymous letter, Pushkin could have thrown this letter away and hired men to deal with Dantes and his friends. He could have locked in his Natalia at the country estate. Nothing else was needed! And he could have sat and waited until his divine verb reached a receptive ear. It would never have reached it, because it would not have been Pushkin, but rather someone else - for example, Benediktov or Kukolnik. Fate is never the result of happenstance. When destiny strikes some changes must be made. In our case the world may have to reconsider some of its democratic values. Our world will be tougher and more responsible in the XXI century - without leftist-liberal snivel or geopolitical chess, that is, more honest. The misery of the South-East against the backdrop of the prosperity of the North-West is a global misfortune. But the penitent theory about "multiculturalism", which gives privileges to minorities and especially to their elite, is even a greater misfortune. From now on the world will become more unified in terms of criteria of civilization. Implicit acceptance of the European, Christian system of values will be the main condition for living in Europe and America (including Russia, no doubt). All that leftist-professorial talk about "identity" and "diversity" will be discarded. Turbans or oriental robes are out of the question for a person who comes to a European country. Nobody has the right to make his woman wear a yashmak. Otherwise get out of our cultural realm. Fundamental antagonisms between the advocates of contemporary liberal civilization and those willing to plunge mankind into the abyss of barbarism, that is, totalitarianism, religious obscurantism and political extremism, have come to light. No religious, cultural or ideological considerations can be taken into account, when human lives, peace and security are threatened. This is the first lesson of the 21st century. There is no such thing as a "plurality of civilizations" or a "multipolar world". There is civilization and barbarism, a pole of stability and the chaotic play of dark forces. It's a pity though that we had to pay with the blood of so many innocent victims to come to understand this. This is a moment of truth for Russia as well. Our great nation must once and for all identify itself as part of the civilized world and join hands with other civilized nations in their fight against international terrorism and barbarism. newtimes.ru