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To: rrufff who wrote (5145)	12/20/2003 9:46:06 AM
From: Dale Baker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 20773

We still have the problem of the many tyrants we deal with (not much democracy anywhere in the Persian Gulf region) now. It's not like we left dealing tyrants behind somewhere. We funded Saddam when he served our purposes against what we thought were large evils. Ditto the Taliban. Ditto Savimbi in Angola. There are more dittos but you get the point. Which of the tyrants we need to deal with now to achieve our interests will be the number one threat to humanity tomorrow? Hard to say without a crystal ball. Mine never seems to work just right. ;<) I oppose anyone calling for the destruction of another group, religion or region. Cultural wars are the biggest BS excuse ever invented for gross crimes against humanity. Al Qaeda uses them, Hitler used them, Milosevic used them (along with the Herzegovinian Croats and even the more extreme Bosnian Muslims to some extent), and so on. An even larger list of dittos there. The very idea is evil and leads people to genocidal policies. The west should not be destroyed; the east should not be destroyed, and so on. Of course, no single side ever has the power to prevail in these supposed cultural wars. They end up as a draw after thousands suffer and die for nothing. I doubt any cultural genocide has fully succeeded since Rome leveled Carthage. But it doesn't seem to stop people from trying to say it's a good idea - a sentiment we need to knock down every time we cross its path.