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On Fri, 07 May 2004 10:19, you wrote: > ANNOUNCEMENTS and ARTICLES: http://pnews.org/art/art.shtml > > > The Right is Crazy > > > Iraq isn't Vietnam. It truly was a different war and they had tungston > steel in SE Asia, not oil -- which was essential for armor plating. We > were running out. They had it (BUT now we use depleted uranium)... Which doesn't alter the fact that America has gone and got itself bogged down in a war that won't end while the troops are there, and amongst a people they don't understand and for whom they have a long history of contempt for - ask Ramzy Baroud or any other Arab-American what they think of the Hollywood tradition of making Arabs the uniformly bad guy. I suspect that America will over time become a lot more "Arabized" - much as it became more "South-East Asian" following the Vietnam War. <snip> > > "The supposition underlying these good intentions is that underneath > our skins, we are all Americans. If that is humanity's true desire, > then all that Americans need to do is to give people a chance, > liberate them from their imposed constraints, and they will embrace > America's ideological dream. No wonder the United States has moved > from "containing" the enemy to promoting a "capitalist revolution," as > Stephen Schwartz of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies put > it in February 2003. The United States is now, as the defunct Soviet > Union was decades ago, the subversive agent of a world revolution." > (Zizek) I read in a book on writing Science Fiction way back in the mid-eighties, about this very same phenomenon, with the author advising the wannabe writers not to make that mistake, since the world doesn't work like that. Pity that sane advice never got anywhere near the White House! ;^/ > > To mention just once more those nuts on the right: > > Ann Coulter is a typical darling of the crazy right. She did write a > column for the conservative National Review, but they dropped her when she > offered up her prescription for dealing with Muslims. She said: "We should > invade their countries. Kill their leaders, and convert them to > Christianity." Oh god! I've just finished reading Amin Maalouf's "The Crusades Through Arab Eyes", http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0805208984/103-5234096-5483008?v=glance http://www.powells.com/cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=2-0805208984-4 That's one of the least things they hold against the West, the actual invasion. The bloodthirsty nature of it - read "The Cannibals of Ma'ara" for a real-life chilling of the bone - was quite successful in turning them against the West. Ann Coulter's a dork. > > No wonder it is impossible to debate or even talk to the right. > They're crazy. True enough! > > Hank Roth > http://pnews.org/ > Shalom l'kol uvrakha Wesley Parish > --- > / o o \ PNEWS Topic Specific Portals (Vortals) > ===OO=====OO================================================= > http://pnews.org/vortal/ New World disOrder and Myth Busters > http://g0lem.net/vortal/ Insane Planet and Wacko World > http://g0lem.net/portal/ Bad-Ass Truth and TheGolemsPortal > http://pnews.org/portal/ Naked Truth and PNEWS Portal > ============================================================= > \_/ \_/ -- Wesley Parish * * * Clinersterton beademung - in all of love. RIP James Blish * * * Mau e ki, "He aha te mea nui?" You ask, "What is the most important thing?" Maku e ki, "He tangata, he tangata, he tangata." I reply, "It is people, it is people, it is people." --- / o o \ PNEWS Topic Specific Portals (Vortals) ===OO=====OO================================================= http://pnews.org/vortal/ New World disOrder and Myth Busters http://g0lem.net/vortal/ Insane Planet and Wacko World http://g0lem.net/portal/ Bad-Ass Truth and TheGolemsPortal http://pnews.org/portal/ Naked Truth and PNEWS Portal ============================================================= \_/ \_/
