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Post #12,952 by inthane-chan 10/11/01 3:00:01 PM Reply	PingPingPingPingPing! This is the kind of thing I've been screamin' about - we support monsters, who spawn monsters of their own. What, do you think I was just talking about Israel? "He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you." - Friedrich Nietzsche
Post #13,028 by marlowe 10/11/01 5:55:17 PM Reply	Yeah, like there's much of a choice. He who refuses to fight with monsters gets eaten. [link\|http://www.angelfire.com/ca3/marlowe/index.html\|http://www.angelfir...e/index.html] Sometimes "tolerance" is just a word for not dealing with things.
Post #13,060 by Simon_Jester 10/11/01 10:15:57 PM Reply	It's not that at all... Part of US policy is to support factions in these regions that the US can control (which is in the nature of US self defense, these regions control critical resources). To do that, we support individuals who would put US interests ahead of the interests of their own people (ie: they're traitors at the core). Furthermore, they must use methods that are strong enough and ruthless enough to halt advances of individuals in their own countries that would represent their countries interests (rather than the US's). In short, we do it to ourselves, and we're not likely to stop anytime soon.
Post #13,102 by jb4 10/12/01 9:51:20 AM Reply	OT: Congrats on getting your picture back. That white box was annoying... jb4 (Resistance is not futile...)
Post #13,112 by screamer 10/12/01 10:38:03 AM Reply	If you want to scream... you should have asked the screamer to do it for you :-) . It may be even much deeper than that. Two days after the September 11 attacks, I brushed off an old book I read circa 1993 from one of my favorite authors and absolutely favorite futurists... Alvin and Heidi Toffler. The book is entitled War and Antiwar... I think the gentleman/woman on this page has presented a decent synthesis of how this can apply now. [link\|http://www.ict.org.il/articles/infowar.htm\|http://www.ict.org..../infowar.htm] Beyond the rhetoric of First and Third World countries there is an underlying pattern and First/Second and Third Wave cultural clashes will become increasingly more frequent and blur the lines between traditional "national and/or religious lines". How far "we" will go depends on how you and I might define "we". Coming back to the global village (the Third Wave "society"), we will increasingly clash with First Wave societies because our fundamental goals are even more different than between 1st and 2nd and or 2nd and 3rd Wave... This may be so much pseudo-intellectual garbage... But it is in this garbage pile that I have begun to root around for a few easy answers... Whatcha thinK? Just a few thoughts, Screamer "God is dead" Nietzsche "Nietzsche is dead" God "Nietzsche has an S in it" Celina Jones "Putting the fun back into funatic"
Post #13,115 by Silverlock 10/12/01 11:28:56 AM Reply	Re: easy answers see sig For every human problem, there is a neat, simple solution; and it is always wrong H. L. Mencken, Mencken's Metalaw

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