Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : Idea Of The Day -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (50109)	10/15/2007 3:14:18 PM
From: JD	Respond to of 50167

iqballatif.newsvine.com Ike, Very nice article, 5000 years of history and sociology presented in a few paragraphs... "Pakistan/Afghanistan are caught between modernism and medievalism, between LUMS and Deoband/Wahabism." The reference to 'LUMS' had me perplexed for a minute, until good ole google came to my rescue: lums.edu.pk We just had a family get-together this past weekend, and we choose to visit one or our local 'tribal' areas. Had we decided to do this 150 years ago, we would have surely lost our scalps, as the Apaches also have a 5000 year history of fierce independence. Now only our wallets get scalped: innofthemountaingods.com It quite literally took 100 years (and counting) for the original Americans to find their way to economic 'success' while retaining their identity...and from our (US gov) recent history in the tribal areas of Afghanistan and Pakistan it does not appear that our government has learned how to apply the lessons it has already been taught... ------------------------------------------- "There is one God looking down on us all. We are all the children of one God. The sun, the darkness, the winds are all listening to what we have to say." - Geronimo