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To: Keith Feral who wrote (168530)	8/9/2005 3:34:45 PM
From: Ish	Respond to of 281500

<<Why doesn't Mick and the Stones send out some tunes to the Islamic leaders that have a reputation of torture, genocide, and totally repressive cultures? >> Could it be that they don't want their heads sawed off?

To: Keith Feral who wrote (168530)	8/9/2005 3:34:47 PM
From: Ish	Respond to of 281500

<<Why doesn't Mick and the Stones send out some tunes to the Islamic leaders that have a reputation of torture, genocide, and totally repressive cultures? >> Could it be that they don't want their heads sawed off?

To: Keith Feral who wrote (168530)	8/9/2005 5:52:21 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 281500

The point is that cultures have the right to self determine. If a culture chooses to be repressive, does another country have the right to intervene based on its individual judgment that the "repressive" culture needs changing? You can do many things to end terrorism- invading a country like Iraq, which has no links to 9/11 that I know of, and has few links to other instances of anti-American terrorism, when Pakistanis, Egyptians and Saudis flesh out the majority of the terrorist packs, makes the whole thing enormously stupid. It's important to those of us living in "free" countries, that pretend to recognize the autonomy of other nations (and of the individual), that we remind our government about where we want to go. If we don't speak out, we have only ourselves to blame if we end up with a more repressive government than we already have. Speaking out against the governments of other countries is fine, but really, it's the duty of the citizens of that other country (whatever it is) to come together to form the kind of government they want. Anything else is really just another form of colonialism. Would the American Revolution have been as "special" if France had come over and imposed it on us?