That sort of joke was heard during Vietnam as well. If we only gave the Viet Cong xxxx-dollars, etc. This only works in human nature for a bit. The Franks and Celts (French) tried to bribe the in-coming Vikings in the 9th Century. Worked for a while, then, the Vikings came in and took over Northern France and took French wives, and the area became Normandy, and in the next century they invaded Britain and by that time they all spoke French. This lasted right Henry's the 8th court where it had been the official language at Court, Monsieur. https://www.worldhistory.org/Viking_Raids_on_Paris/#:~:text=Throughout%20the%209th%20century%20CE,at%20least%2C%20correlated%20with%20it. What about Afghanistan? Their faith which they would die for as holy martyr's Shaheeds, is basically a plan to sacrifice now, in order to be with Allah in Paradise, for eternity. The Shahada is the first of 5 prayers the Faithful say every day. The Shahada is asking Allah to make me a martyr in his holy name. https://saudigazette.com.sa/article/529534 For the Muslim this is a chance to live past your own life and have eternity with Allah and family and friends. Ask Samiya who will give forth an answer, not mine, his answer, for he is a Muslim scholar. His view won't agree with mine, but this what humans do, disagree and fight. These guys in Afghanistan plan for the very long term indeed. Because logically if one is a believer, why not? White liberals always think that people deep down will possess their values, and that people are all the same. Not always! But I say, if someone has an ideology, it eclipses the in-take of information, and yeah, this goes for the religious ideologists, ask an anthropologist. My only advice is 1. don't encourage the elites, the boards, of directors especially in making national and international policy. Woke corporations included.2. Focus on getting money to and expanding the middle class worldwide. Also in the USA. Charity begins at home said John Wycliffe. Yeah I know, nag nag nag blather blather, but this is what us idle peasants do.
-----Original Message----- From: 'Brent Meeker' via Everything List <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Thu, Aug 19, 2021 3:56 pm Subject: Re: Afghanistan papers On 8/19/2021 8:56 AM, John Clark wrote: On Thu, Aug 19, 2021 at 10:50 AM Henrik Ohrstrom <[email protected]> wrote: > The Soviets tried to murder Afghanistan to submission, and failed. US is nowhere as violently murderous as the Soviets and Supriya! Killing for peace failed again! No-one are as good at murdering Afghanis as Afghanis. Not even old school great Britannia could murder enough to make a dent in Afghanistan. Yeah, there's a reason Afghanistan has been called the Graveyard Of Empires. Since 2001 the USA has spent 2 trillion dollars fighting the Taliban, for that amount of money we could've given $54,000 to every man, woman and child living in Afghanistan, and in retrospect that might have actually been a better option. John K Clark See what's on my new list at Extropolis The total ultimate Afghan war bill is estimated as more than $6.4 trillion, according to the Cost of War Project at Brown University. That includes the pension and medical costs which will be incurred over the next 80 years. So we could have given them $164,000 per person. Or we could have given every American $18,300. Brent -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/b53d08d6-78e3-c810-8a34-32265ce6bd9a%40verizon.net. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/248365180.303776.1629412217901%40mail.yahoo.com.
