Re: OT: Re: Re: O.T. I've got to take a Sudan

Bill <trash@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I was thinking of the propaganda value of the Moslems dancing in the
streets after 9/11. It might have been true. It might also have been
irrelevant-- think about an Islamic reporter coming to America looking
for some juicy bigotted comments with which to inflame the Moslem
world-- it wouldn't be hard at all. Would it be a fair representation
of America? Of course not. Was the clip of the Moslems dancing in the
streets a fair representation of the Moslem world? But I heard many
people cite that clip as justification for a harsh response.

The famous clip shown was of Palestinians dancing in the streets. Now, this
doesn't suprise me much; America is not very popular in Palestine. But the
Palestinians of course had nothing to do with 9-11 or with Iraq either for
that matter. The rest of the Moslem world isn't so well-liked in Palestine
either.

Now "60 Minutes" aired a segment in which an Anglican priest described
how things are immeasurably worse for Christians in Iraq now than they
ever were under Saddam. How can a thoughtful person not think seriously
about what that means for what we have been led to believe about Iraq?

Oh, everybody today can agree that the US went into Iraq with good intentions
but without any strategy or any concept of what they were doing, and that
the end result was disasterous for everybody involved in the conflict and a
lot of folks who weren't.

The question that folks can't agree on is what to do about it now.
--scott

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