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To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (49320)	10/24/2005 4:10:22 AM
From: IQBAL LATIF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50167

Oversimplification of history by Zbigniew Brzezinski? Oct 23, 2005 Iqbal Latif Paris, Persian Journal An open answer to..Zbigniew Brzezinski's "Bush suicidal statecraft... the ultimate cause of imperial collapse." Oversimplification of history is the hallmark of people like Zbigniew Brzezinski, a former U.S. national security advisor. Quoting Arnold Toynbee, he accuses the Bush administration of "Bush suicidal statecraft... the ultimate cause of imperial collapse". In "THE IRAQ WAR," Bill Bonner picks on Bush and quotes as a reinforcement of his argument the recent speech of Harold Pinter, yesterday's winner of the Nobel Prize for literature. Most of these quotations are out context and examples of great acts of intellectual dishonesty. "Every great empire - from the Assyrians to the Mongols to the British had taken Baghdad. America had to do it too." Perhaps Bill Bonner and Pinter failed to notice that neither the Mongols nor the Assyrians or the British could pull off elections in Iraq. Mongols were busy burning Baghdad and creating mountains of chopped heads. Rolling the caliph in a carpet so as to avoid the shedding of holy blood in the caliph's palace was the best Mongols did. Neither did they bring the Caliph of Islam to face a panel of judges; he was rolled up in the carpet and barbarically killed....contd iranian.ws

To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (49320)	10/25/2005 7:14:20 AM
From: IQBAL LATIF	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 50167

Biography of the Day Pablo PicassoPablo Picasso, who was born this day in 1881 in Málaga, Spain, but spent most of his life in Paris, was one of the creators of Cubism and is widely seen as one of the greatest and most influential artists in history.