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Politics : Israel to U.S. : Now Deal with Syria and Iran -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Edscharp who wrote (9992)	2/8/2006 6:52:28 AM
From: sea_urchin	Respond to of 22250

Ed > I have a strong hunch you don't live in the USA. Very few people in this country would share your thought processes. I'm South African and I also would be surprised if most religious people here think the same as I do. Nevertheless, this is how I see it. When the whites were in power, I lived with anti-black racism and apartheid and for most of my life. Even today, under a black government, racism is not finished because of affirmative action laws directed against whites. But of course the discrimination against whites is nothing like it was against blacks. So, having been through the mill myself, and from both sides if you will, I have developed an understanding that the way to stop racism is simply to stop it, not to continue it forever trying to justify one's position. I'm sure it's the same with religious differences. Indeed, racism in SA was "justified" by recourse to the Bible which is one reason why I gave up on religion as a bad job. My view is if people want to believe in God then they can and it is not necessary to take along all the historic religious and political baggage to do so. > Much easier to hate your enemy if they look funny or different from you. And most of us do look different, don't we? Not surprisingly, Semitic Jews and Arabs actually look similar so the fight is about belief.

To: Edscharp who wrote (9992)	2/8/2006 7:54:19 AM
From: sea_urchin	Respond to of 22250

Ed, you should also put it in perspective. informationclearinghouse.info >>Americans need to understand that many interests are using the "war on terror" to achieve their agendas. The Federalist Society is using the "war on terror" to achieve its agenda of concentrating power in the executive and packing the Supreme Court to this effect. The neocons are using the war to achieve their agenda of Israeli hegemony in the Middle East. Police agencies are using the war to remove constraints on their powers and to make themselves less accountable. Republicans are using the war to achieve one-party rule--theirs. The Bush administration is using the war to avoid accountability and evade constraints on executive powers. Arms industries, or what President Eisenhower called the "military-industrial complex," are using the war to fatten profits. Terrorism experts are using the war to gain visibility. Security firms are using it to gain customers. Readers can add to this list at will. The lack of debate gives carte blanche to these agendas. One certainty prevails. Bush is committing America to a path of violence and coercion, and he is getting away with it.<<