Speculation (or, as Marshall McLuhan would have called it,
a "probe"):
Osama bin Laden answered the riddle of the Sphinx.
In the Greek version, the Sphinx falls off a cliff
and kills herself (presumably her reason for living
is gone after her riddle has been solved).
In the real world 21st century version of the story,
the Sphinx just sits there in a catatonic state of
bafflement because she doesn't know what to do
after her riddle has been answered [i.e., the Cold
War is over]. But Osama gives her a little
push and off the cliff she goes, not willingly but
just as effectively.
As for Pandora's box, maybe someone knows who
(and for what purpose...) made and provisioned it?
We do seem to read in the "media" (e.g., the NYT),
that the USA aided and abetted Saddam Hussein and the
percursors of Al Qaeda and other Afghan warlords when
we thought they could help us defeat "The Evil Empire",
but we all know that, and it's water over the dam (disbursements
long since disbursed...)....
Do a Google search on "Pandors's Box", and see what you get....
--I was expecting to find info about the Greek myth.
Was Pandora's box the Greek equivalent of The Tree of Knowledge
in The Garden of Eden? Yet another "tale of foolish curiosity"
(ref.: _Don Quixote_) perpetrated by foolish deities/Deity
against humanity? A prayer:
Dear Lord, may I remain beneath your notice.
\brad mccormick
Christoph Reuss wrote:
>
> On Sun, 20 Oct 2002, Arthur Cordell wrote:
> > I think that in 1989 or so, when "the wall" came down, the world missed an
> > opportunity to actually move toward world peace. Actually it was the US
> > that missed the opportunity. In the face of the collapse of the USSR the US
> > could have started a move to global disaramament. Wow.
> ...
> > It didn't. Wonder why. Rather historians
> > in 50 or 100 years (if there is a history to write) will wonder why.
>
> Isn't the answer obvious? The US gov't didn't do that because it is in the
> pockets of the armaments industry and wants global hegemony. Btw, this
> scheme started at least half a century _before_ the cold war -- not only
> "missing opportunities for peace", but actively creating/promoting
> opportunities for war.
>
> Brad McCormick replied to Arthur:
> > That someday was yesterday.
> >
> > And, as you say -- and as the NYT says in a Week in Review
> > piece about Al Qaeda today: That opportunity is gone. Osama
> > bin Laden opened Pandora's Box: a grass-roots level world-wide
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > distributed terror network which seems to be something new
> > in history -- a BRILLIANT IDEA
>
> Was it Osama who opened Pandora's Box, or wasn't it rather the US/CIA
> who opened Osama-Pandora's Box (against the Soviets) ? As Selig Harrison
> from the Woodrow Wilson International Centre for Scholars put it (at a
> security conference half a year before 9/11):
> "I warned the CIA that we were creating a monster."
>
> Greetings,
> Chris
--
Let your light so shine before men,
that they may see your good works.... (Matt 5:16)
Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. (1 Thes 5:21)
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