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To: Neocon who wrote (130607)	4/30/2004 12:55:50 PM
From: skinowski	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Militant Islam has added an apocalyptic dimension to the supposed struggle against the West, by making it a matter of spiritual observance... Like a post-bubble index during a bear market, this world keeps sliding down towards a new stand-off between blocks - the clash of civilizations, if you will. Moderate Muslims would be smart if they do not allow this to happen, for they would be the ones to pay the worst price. Just ask the tens of millions murdered in Soviet Gulags. The bin Ladinista variety will not be much better, as the victims of Afghani "Talibs" could attest. A few days ago I wrote this attempt to understand how come so many don't understand... Message 20060727

To: Neocon who wrote (130607)	4/30/2004 4:05:09 PM
From: FaultLine	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

Hello Neocon, The Thirld World is full of anti- colonialist bitterness... Thank you for this thoughtful post. I too am experiencing these frustrations about our place in the world. --fl

To: Neocon who wrote (130607)	4/30/2004 5:35:40 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 281500

Yesterday, or the day before, I ran across a factoid but did not make proper note of on my way past it, and now wish I had. Here it is, as best as I can recall it: between 1815 and 1914, approximately 85% of the world was colonized. Now, that can't be true, can it? Maybe it was that 85% of the world was a colony or part of an empire, or either part of a colony or a colonizer. At any rate, what's been picking at me about it is that the US actually had very few colonies. Puerto Rico, and the Philippines is about all -- there were and are some little islands like Guam, Virgin Islands, and Hawai'i. The big colonial nations were Great Britain, Spain, France, Portugal, the Netherlands. Germany and Belgium had a few. It seems to me that anti-Western sentiment is against the United States, not because of anti-colonialism, but because we are adamantly capitalistic, and the global elite, of both former colonies and former colonizers, is socialistic. How does that get transformed into anti-colonialism?