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On 18 Jan 2003 at 10:01, Kevin S. Van Horn wrote:
The terrorists have made it pretty clear what their gripe
with the U.S. Government is, and it has nothing to do with
trade, the American lifestyle, or the elusive freedoms that
Americans supposedly enjoy. It has everything to do with
Kevin S. Van Horn wrote:
John Kelsey wrote:
No policy toward anyone isn't possible once there's any kind of
contact. There are terrorists who'd want to do nasty things to us for
simply allowing global trade, or for allowing trade with repressive
regimes like Saudi Arabia or
John Keley wrote...
There are terrorists who'd want to do nasty things to us for simply
allowing global trade, or for allowing trade with repressive regimes like
Saudi Arabia or Nigeria, or for selling weapons to countries with bad human
rights records.
Hummm...kind of an odd argument, don't
Tyler Durden wrote:
John Keley wrote...
Osama Bin Laden might not hate us, but *someone* would.
Well, perhaps we fucked with the wrong guy.
Fucked with. Trained up and fucked over. Whatever.
BTW...a Muslim co-worker sardonically stated recently that our new war
with Iraq is just a way
John Kelsey wrote:
No policy toward anyone isn't possible once there's any kind of
contact. There are terrorists who'd want to do nasty things to us for
simply allowing global trade, or for allowing trade with repressive
regimes like Saudi Arabia or Nigeria, or for selling weapons to
At 09:38 AM 1/16/03 -0800, Major Variola (ret) wrote:
At 03:20 PM 1/15/03 -0800, Petro wrote:
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[Question of whether we could have avoided 9/11 and such things by not
having an activist foreign policy]
Secondly, other groups would have been just as pissed off at us for
*not* helping
At 03:20 PM 1/15/03 -0800, Petro wrote:
On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 09:15:57AM -0800, Bill Stewart wrote:
On the other hand, if the US were following the traditional model
for defense rather than having a standing army stomping around the
world,
it's highly unlikely that somebody like Al Qaeda
