On Tuesday 19 November 2002 01:18 pm, Trei, Peter wrote:
> If you think 'the Muslims' are your enemy,
> then you have a problem.
I never said that they were MY enemy.
> 'The Muslims'
> are not a monolithic group, and have no
> central leadership. This is a bit like
> declaring that 'the Protestants' need to
> back down over Northern Ireland.
Well, they have enough non-central leadership to all be against Israel and
the US. And to have been at war against the Israelies since Bible times....
Their non-central propaganda engine is training their young to go to war
instead of trying to live peacefully. "The Muslims" was an overly broad
term, though.
> Mike, don't take this personally, but I get the
> feeling that you're very young, or have very
> little exposure to life outside the US, or both.
> It's hard to think of other reasons for your
> lack of perspective -
Why, because I've come to different conclusions than you? Has it ever
occured to you that maybe your opinions are colored by what you think of our
government and that the may not be completely rational? I often find it
humorous that when people disagree with me, they many times resort to
name-calling, emotional appeals, or simply patronizing me, as you have.
I don't believe everything I read in the papers. I assume that our
government is lying to me; they have to. I understand our motivations in
this war quite well.
> you seem to have no
> concept of how the US Government's
> actions look from the outside.
> [mind you, this status is all too common
> among Americans].
... And I don't care how they look. I don't see many alternatives to much of
what we are doing.
> He who sows the wind....
...reaps the whirlwind. Perhapse the US is the whirlwind....
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Mike Diehl
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